Read the excerpt from "Children of the Drug Wars."
To ensure this isn't a sham process, asylum officers and
judges must be trained in child-sensitive interviewing
techniques to help elicit information from fearful,
traumatized youngsters. All children must also be
represented by a volunteer or government-funded
lawyer. Kids in Need of Defense, a nonprofit that recruits
pro bono lawyers to represent immigrant children and
whose board I serve on, estimates that 40 percent to 60
percent of these children potentially qualify to stay under
current immigration laws-and do, if they have a lawyer
by their side. The vast majority do not. The only way to
ensure we are not hurtling children back to
circumstances that could cost them their lives is by
providing them with real due process.
The text repeats the word children. How does this
repetition serve the author's purpose?
O It emphasizes that it is easy for children to get
immigration status.
O It reminds readers that young, innocent lives are
being harmed by failed policies.
O It helps to convince readers that immigration laws for
children should be changed.
O It helps to convince readers that more lawyers are
needed to defend children.