Vera Institute of Justice

The baby's mother, a seventeen-year-old who is an unaccompanied minor herself, appeared with the child in court.

Unaccompanied minors went without legal representation in about fifty-five percent of nearly fifty thousand immigration cases completed as of August this year, the highest percentage since twenty nineteen, according to an analysis by the Vera Institute of Justice, a nonprofit research group.

Deportation orders for the children who Vera identified as unaccompanied minors have also surged, topping seventy-three hundred in July, up from thirty-five hundred in May.

By comparison, that number was two thousand in January twenty twenty-five, according to the group.

There is much information that supports this request.

Of the roughly 3.2 million pending deportation cases currently in US immigration courts, people in 52% of those cases do not have a lawyer, according to an analysis of immigration court data by the Vera Institute of Justice, a think tank.

A Congressional Research Service study from 2024 found that only 19% of people who did not have a lawyer won asylum or other, another avenue to stay in the United States.

Among those who did have a lawyer, 47% were successful.

So we'd love to see that.

She would then move on to work at the Vera Institute for Justice.

And I found a really fun interview with her and another person who started the job.

And they kind of asked them why or who they are and their background.

All this created the cover that Fauci and the NIH needed to run tests on children at Carnation and likely other institutions.

The Vera Institute review and reporting from the time both described the foster children in these trials as overwhelmingly black and Hispanic.

That matched the demographics of the children with HIV in New York City at the time.

What did I just read? Yep.

Who are the people advocating for these policies?

Well, you've got, like, the MacArthur Foundation, the Vera Institute, or it used to be Vera Institute, now Vera something else.

They're all activist groups funded by, you know, Soros and other groups, uh, the Koch brothers.

You know, I would even put Right on Crime as one of these groups.

Hi, my name is Jacqueline Pavillon.

I am the Associate Director of Research at the Vera Institute of Justice's Advancing Universal Reflectation Initiative.

Vera is an institute with a mission to end the criminalization and mass incarceration of people of color, immigrants, and people experiencing poverty.

And our initiative specifically has an ultimate goal within Vera to advance due process and ensure everyone at risk of deportation has an attorney by their side.

One's called TRAC, which is the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse.

And then the other one's called the Vera Institute of Justice, which I feel like also is who I live with.

Yeah.

And so then ICE data that was released on February 2nd of 2026 showed that roughly 71,000 people were held across 225 facilities nationwide.