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What well-nigh a lawyer-like app as the minimum help for defendants in immigration cases? | L. Collado-Torres Toggle navigation L. Collado-Torres Home Publications Talks Blog CV Students Teaching Contact Search What well-nigh a lawyer-like app as the minimum help for defendants in immigration cases? Mon, Sep 17, 2018 10 min read Ideas Today I attended the special panel discussion event at JHSPH tabbed “Separated: Children Separation at the Border A Health and Human Rights Perspective”. It got my mind racing and here’s an idea. It’s likely (definitely) incomplete, but maybe it’ll get others to think on related ideas. Image source Panel summary The panel was well-balanced by: Colleen Kraft, President, American Academy of Pediatrics Eric Schwartz, President, Refugee International George Escobar, Chief of Program and Services, CASA de Maryland Paul Spiegel, Director, Center for Humanitarian Health I missed the first 30 minutes or so but I still got to listen to most of it. The panel members presented many facts and here are some that will be relevant to the idea I have: Child separation is just one of the consequences of the current’s wardship immigration policies implemented and enforced by the Department of Justice (ultimately headed by Jeff Sessions, the US Attorney General). The US is the only country (to the panel’s members knowledge) with a child separation policy. Due to empathy many individuals wideness political lines reacted versus child separation. The US immigration system won’t really transpiration much plane if Democrats get elected. Obama did deport over 2 million individuals, though he prioritized criminals1.Underdevelopedimmigrants are not required by law to have representation (a lawyer) provided by the government2. Minors (say 3 year old children) with no lawyers are stuff highlighted in the media. Immigration cases where the defendants have lawyers drastically improve3 the odds for the defendants. Immigration judges are human. Immigration judges typically used to (or maybe still do) try to requite time for a minor to get a lawyer. Immigration judges are alledgely4 stuff pressured to meet quotas in the range of 700 to 1,000 cases by year under the current administration. Thus judges sometimes have to tropical cases in a couple of hours. Immigration judges now basically have 2 options for latter a case: order deportation or (I’m missing the correct term) self-ruling the defendant. At the end the panel members highlighted that we should take some type of action5 but that we should consider the consequences of our suggested policy changes. They moreover mentioned that we should take wholesomeness of this moment (child separation got everyone’s attention) to raise the profile of the other problems with the current immigration policies. My way of taking action: here’s an idea I’m by no ways an immigration expert. My way of taking whoopee is to share ideas, like I’ve washed-up in the past, that might be incomplete, unrealistic or plane super flawed, but that hopefully motivate others. The yellowish wreck version of my idea was: what if immigrants could have an will-less (programmed) lawyer and translator during their hearings? This would not be a replacement for unquestionably having lawyers (say those provided by local governments or NGOs as George Escobar mentioned) but would raise the minimum bar for those immigrants who currently have their cases processed with no lawyers at all. Getting into the details Imagine that we could get our hands on dozens/hundreds/thousands? of transcripts of immigration magistrate hearings where we have the pursuit information: what the judge said what the government’s lawyer said what the defendant’s lawyer said (either to the judge or to the defendant) what the defendant said Just like a script for a play. We would likewise need a table with magistrate hearing metadata such as: Outcome: deportation, stuff freed (term?).Stageof the hearing. State where the hearing occurred. Then using machine learning (maybe with deep learning methods) process the text and try to determine potential suggestions an very defendant’s lawyer would requite to its defendant or respond to the judge/government’s lawyer. It might not unchangingly get things right, but I imagine that it would be largest than the current state of affairs. The will-less lawyer would need then to work as say a phone app that listens to what others are saying in the room. Say have 3 icons with one per person present (judge, defendant, gov’s lawyer). Then the defendant presses each sawed-off when each person is talking. The app then shows some 1 to say 3 suggested responses (with translations)6 and responds for the defendant in English once the defendant chooses an option (or goes with the top one). Implementing an initial version of the app I think that large computing companies like Amazon, Microsoft and Google would be willing to provide some compute credits on their clouds for the initial version of the algorithm that is listening to the magistrate hearing and then provides suggestions. Think of this as the “suggested text” you get nowadays when typing emails on Gmail or text messages. Maybe these companies have programs where you can wield to have some of their engineers help you for a unrepealable number of hours. I think that one big initial rencontre would be to get that hodgepodge of transcripts from immigration magistrate hearings where defendant lawyer(s) were present. I moreover imagine that streamlined lawyers are not unliable currently in courts. But compared to providing human lawyers in all immigration cases, this transpiration might be increasingly realistic to pass as a law. I moreover imagine that some phone companies might be willing to provide some refurbished phones that only have this app installed and are kept unscratched in the immigration courts. And well, satisfy any security requirements the government has. Improving the app Lets say that you get that start version of the app working. If we had volunteer lawyers enucleate the transcripts with some information well-nigh the intent overdue what each person said (it could start with just 3 options: negative, positive, neutral from the perspective of the defendant) that could maybe help the algorithm that processes the transcripts. If we moreover had increasingly detailed magistrate hearing metadata such as: Location of the magistrate (I imagine a that a few judges work in each court) Demographics of the defendants: like which country or plane region of the country where they come from, whether the defendant has any family support, etc Category information for the magistrate hearing (maybe cases can be grouped into a few categories) then I imagine that the app would be worldly-wise to have increasingly personalized experience, like re-adjust the suggestions based on which magistrate you are located at and transmute the translations to the Spanish version the defendant is most familiar with (we say buddy in so many variegated ways as shown below). Image source The app could moreover be unfluctuating to remote human immigration lawyers than can intervene remotely when the suggestions algorithm doensn’t know what to do. Maybe this could be part of some social service that immigration lawyers (regardless of their personal political preferences) could do as some elective during their formation. Doing some inveigling I think that you could try to get support for this will-less immigration lawyer by arguing that: It’s largest than no lawyer. It’s cheaper than having lawyers for all cases. Improves processing times on stereotype (ideally) such that immigration judges can fulfill their quotas (here I’m hoping that it reduces the rate at which cases are sealed with deportation orders). Is increasingly humane than having a minor with no help. Though I hope that immigration judges would still try to requite time for children to secure a lawyer. Might be implemented older (years earlier?) than changes in immigration law requiring that all defendants have a human lawyer in immigration cases. If human lawyers can help through the app, then it moreover increases the number of jobs for immigration lawyers. This idea has potentially many flaws considering like any system, people on both sides will try to game it. This is where having a large set of transcripts would be useful as well as continuous updates to the algorithm such that gaming the system unquestionably becomes hard. As you can see, this is just an idea, or a hodgepodge of them virtually one theme. It would need serious work to implement. Acknowledgements Do you want to listen to the whole panel discussion? From this tweet it looks like the recording will be misogynist online: Thank you @ColleenKraft (@AmerAcadPeds), @EricSchwartzRI (@RefugeesIntl), George Escobar (CASA de Maryland) & @pbspiegel (@Humanit_Health) for participating in today's panel. A recorded version of the talk will be misogynist on the @Humanit_Health website: https://t.co/nXAvI5KJkm— JHU Public Health (@JohnsHopkinsSPH) September 17, 2018 This blog post was made possible thanks to: BiocStyle (Oleś, Morgan, and Huber, 2018) blogdown (Xie, Hill, and Thomas, 2017) devtools (Wickham, Hester, and Chang, 2018) knitcitations (Boettiger, 2017) References [1] C. Boettiger. knitcitations: Citations for ‘Knitr’ Markdown Files. R package version 1.0.8. 2017. URL: https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=knitcitations. [2] A. Oleś, M. Morgan and W. Huber. BiocStyle: Standard styles for vignettes and other Bioconductor documents. R package version 2.9.6. 2018. URL: https://github.com/Bioconductor/BiocStyle. [3] H. Wickham, J. Hester and W. Chang. devtools: Tools to Make Developing R Packages Easier. R package version 1.13.6. 2018. URL: https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=devtools. [4] Y. Xie, A. P. Hill and A. Thomas. blogdown: Creating Websites with R Markdown. ISBN 978-0815363729. Boca Raton, Florida: Chapman and Hall/CRC, 2017. URL: https://github.com/rstudio/blogdown. 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I think that the app should never seem that the defendant knows how to read.↩ politics Prediction Diversity Related Harassment, diversity in science and inspiration from my grandmother An volitional to the Mexico-US wall where the US would proceeds millions of dollars Predicting who will win a NFL match at half time Please enable JavaScript to view the comments powered by Disqus. comments powered by Disqus © 2011-2018 Leonardo Collado Torres under (CC) BY-NC-SA 4.0. All thoughts and opinions here are my own. · Powered by the Academic theme for Hugo. × Cite Copy Download