A social justice related problem that concerns me, as a future social worker candidate is an immigrant child looking for help and fleeing to other countries to look for help. An example is the unaccompanied alien child law. Unaccompanied alien child (UAC) is a term defined by law as a child who has no lawful immigration stat¬us in the United States, who is not 18 years of age; and with respect to whom there is no parent or legal guardian in the United States. Under this law these young migrants receive certain protections under U.S. law. Children under the age of 18 traveling to other countries without their parents or guardian have always been a part of global migration flows. Some of the immigrant children are seeking to flee gangs, war,