John Oliver on America's immigration courts, where families are torn apart and young children represent themselves

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fB0GBwJ2QA

John Oliver is in very good form in this 18-minute explainer on America's ghastly immigration courts, where "we try death penalty cases like it was traffic court," forcing refugee claimants (even children as young as three years old) to represent themselves in deportation proceedings where their very lives are at stake. (more…)