John Oliver takes 18-minutes to explain what's wrong with US immigration courts

The immigration courts in the US have some problems. A lot of problems, from the sounds of it.

In the video above for Last Week Tonight, John Oliver breaks them down one by one — everything from the massive discrepancy in the deportation rate between cities to the fact that people who can’t afford a lawyer are often forced to represent themselves.

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“The truth here is we are going to need big changes,” says Oliver. “Ideally the biggest change would be to make the courts fully independent from the DOJ, which is something that can’t happen overnight or, under this particular congress, probably at all. Read more…

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