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Helen Eisner, Disabled, Defenseless, And Still Deportable: Why Deportation Without Representation Undermines Due Process Rights of Mentally Disabled Immigrants, 14 U. Pa. J. Const. L. 511 (Dec. 2011).

Human Rights Watch, Deportation by Default: Mental Disability, Unfair Hearings and Indefinite Detention in the US Immigration System (2010).

Legal Action Center, Practice Advisory: Representing Clients With Mental Competency Issues Under Matter of M-A-M (Nov. 30, 2011).

Travis Packer, Non-Citizens with Mental Disabilities: The Need for Better Care in Detention and in Court, Immigration Policy Center of American Immigration Council (Nov. 2010).

Various organizations, Letter to William Holder Regarding Mentally Disabled Respondents (July 24, 2009), available at http://documents.nytimes.com/letter-to-attorney-general-holder-regarding-mentally-disabled-respondents#p=1. 

Texas Appleseed, Justice for Immigration’s Hidden Population (March 2010), available at https://www.texasappleseed.org/sites/default/files/10-ImmigrationDetentionReportMentalDisabilities.PDF.

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The NCCRC works to advance the right to counsel for low-income people in civil cases involving basic human needs, such as housing, health, domestic violence, civil incarceration, and child custody.

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