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Legal representation always matters, but the need for representation intensifies when the most basic rights are at

stake. In immigration removal (deportation) cases, the federal government adjudicates whether an individual may

live and work in the United States, or whether that person must relocate to another country. Reasons for wanting

to be in the United States vary, from a desire to remain with family to a fear for one's life in a home country. In these immigration proceedings, an executive branch employee, an immigration judge, applies the Immigration and Nationality Act, a body of statutes long recognized to rival the …