Sentences with phrase «surge docket»

She boosted the city budget to include more money to connect unaccompanied minor children facing immigration cases with lawyers to argue on their behalf in court during an immigration surge docket.

The turn in court comes after Ms. James had previously called on the city's lawyers represent, pro bono, children facing deportation cases in the federal government's surge docket, and had promised to do so herself after a refresher on family and immigration law.

And Ms. Mark - Viverito also led the way on the creation of a new public - private partnership to fund lawyers for unaccompanied minor children facing deportation as part of the «surge docket» in federal court.

The need has grown more urgent, Ms. James and activists said, as the federal government has decided to prioritize the cases of the unaccompanied children and adults with children in what is being called a «surge docket.»

The courtroom's benches were full, and in the hall other children who entered the country illegally and alone — now reunited with parents or other sponsors — waited to answer the same questions as part of the «surge docket» underway to move quickly through their immigration cases.

As the surge docket first got underway, many did not have lawyers — though Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito announced last year funding to ensure all of them had legal representation.

While some advocates have slammed the surge docket as being stacked against the children and a quick means to deport them, Ms. Mark - Viverito said she didn't get that impression and thought the process was a way to move the children out of limbo and toward some sense of normalcy and routine.