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cjrl-2302	Gradilla, Miguel A.	Making Rights Real: Effectuating the Due Process Rights of Particularly Vulnerable Immigrants in Removal Proceedings Through Administrative Mechanisms	2014	32	.pdf	application/pdf	18680	675	37	Of particular concern is the fact that immigration removal proceedings face deep and systemic issues that threaten their legitimacy, such as not allowing individuals to meaningfully present their case with others’ assistance when they are unable to do so on their own.7 Academic commentators and immigrants’ rights advocates have called for changes to this system for many years.8 Beyond being overburdened with massive caseloads,9 serious due process concerns cast a dark shadow on the decisions made by immigration judges (“IJ”).10 2 See, e.g., Elise Foley & Sam Stein, Obama Promises Swift Action on Immigration in Meeting with Progressives, HUFF POST: POLITICS (Nov. 13, 2012, 7:59 PM), http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11 /13/obama-immigration-action_n_2125625.html (detailing President Obama’s plans for immigration reform as expressed in a meeting with progressive leaders); THE WHITE HOUSE, BUILDING A 21ST CENTURY IMMIGRATION SYSTEM (2011), available at http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default /files/rss_viewer/immigration_blueprint.pdf (outlining the Obama administration’s vision for immigration reform). The latest figures available from the Department of Homeland Security (“DHS”) show that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (“ICE”) detained 477,523 foreign- nationals in 2012, a record number.13 In 2008, sixty percent of all immigrants in the immigration court system and eighty-four percent of detained immigrants had no legal representation.14 Given that the laws regarding government appointed counsel in immigration removal proceedings have not changed since 2008, it is likely that the number of unrepresented immigrants is similarly high today.	cache/cjrl-2302.pdf	txt/cjrl-2302.txt