{"pk":59744,"title":"Access to America: Empowering Detained Immigrants with Access to Justice","subtitle":null,"abstract":"The U.S. immigration system continues to detain immigrants who seek to enter the country at incredibly high rates. Only 19.4 percent of detained noncitizens are represented in their immigration hearings, which often effectively have life-or-death consequences. Noncitizens face a host of physical and informational barriers in detention that impede their ability to find legal representation or successfully represent themselves in immigration court. The access to justice framework seeks to address this problem by identifying various ways to provide competent legal support to immigrants in detention. This Article examines the opportunities and limitations of universal representation programs, accredited representatives, and the Legal Orientation Program. While all three provide partial relief to this issue, this Article argues that the programs working in conjunction with one another would be most effective to begin to tackle this massive crisis.","language":"en","license":null,"keywords":[],"section":"Articles","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7120h1c2","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Aila","middle_name":"","last_name":"Ganić","name_suffix":"","institution":"","department":""}],"date_submitted":"2025-10-20T08:49:51-07:00","date_accepted":"2025-10-20T08:49:51-07:00","date_published":"2024-12-31T16:00:00-08:00","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/uclalaw_cjlr/article/59744/galley/45705/download/"}]}