NYC creates public defender system for immigrants (illegals)

Associated Press ^ | Jun. 27, 2014 1:58 AM EDT | Deepti Hajela

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Poor New York City immigrants who otherwise would have faced the complicated immigration system with its threat of deportation on their own will now get legal representation to help them in a program advocates say is the first of its kind in the country and one they hope the federal government will ultimately take on.

The New York Immigrant Family Unity Project will cover all eligible immigrant city residents detained in the system and appearing in immigration courts in New York City or the New Jersey cities of Elizabeth and Newark.

Lawmakers approved $4.9 million for the initiative as part of the $75 billion budget passed early Thursday for the fiscal year which starts July 1. …

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Kiss the financial sector goodbye. A large chunk of it is already foreign-owned anyway.

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The enemy inside the gates now have the alien invaders covered on both ends - taxpayer defense lawyers and Obama hired sympathetic government attorneys to throw the prosecution:

" Department of Homeland Security has just completed a hiring blitz of attorneys to oversee and manage immigration litigation. Almost all of these new civil service attorney hires hail from an activist pro-amnesty and pro-asylum background. Sources within the Department of Homeland Security report that the process for hiring these new career civil service lawyers was unconventional and was conducted by an Obama political appointee within DHS."

"The new attorneys have activist backgrounds with a variety of pro-amnesty groups such as the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF), the Advancement Project, and open borders groups funded by the Tides Foundation."

SOURCE LINK: "Amnesty Incorporated: DHS Hires Activist Immigration Lawyers" by J. Christian Adams