It seems better than treating the child as property, but honestly I don't think the child should be forced to represent themselves w/o counsel. In fact, I hones

It seems better than treating the child as property, but honestly I don't think the child should be forced to represent themselves w/o counsel. In fact, I honestly wonder why our immigration and deportation laws don't have a requirement to have legal counsel automatically assigned to children if their legal parents are not present. At that point, if they have parents then their parents should have some legal counsel to represent all affected. Either way, I just think this seems down right fishy for any judge to do mostly because it's a conflict of interest. Plus, children are easily manipulated into saying things they don't mean or never experienced. So, I'd rather the judge not have that power to manipulate children. If they must be deported then at least deport them w/ the proper authorities of their native country so they can be cared for. Otherwise, this just seems...weird.