Posted on 04/26/2017 2:32:28 PM PDT by davikkm
In an editorial by the Los Angeles Times, the use of taxpayer money to pay for illegal immigrants’ legal fees to fight deportation is heralded as a “worthwhile” plan. The LA Times Editorial Board writes that because some illegal immigrants do not have lawyers, it is the responsibility of U.S. taxpayers to pay for their attorneys:
Having a lawyer can make all the difference in the world to someone facing deportation in federal immigration court, where the law is dizzyingly byzantine. Yet only 37% of potential deportees have one. Part of the problem is a lack of attorneys trained in immigration law, and part of it is money — immigrants, unsurprisingly, often lack the resources to hire lawyers.
Of course, if they were facing criminal charges, they would be provided with lawyers as a constitutional right under U.S. Supreme Court rulings. But immigration codes are civil, and there is no constitutional right to an attorney during civil proceedings. If you can find one on your own, good for you, but the government does not supply one.
Forcing someone — often a person without even a rudimentary understanding of English — to navigate this complicated legal terrain with no idea of what the law says, or what remedies might be available, is Kafkaesque.
The LA Times editors tout programs in California where taxpayers have been funding illegal immigrants’ attorneys since 2014, with $3 million a year going to open borders organizations to pay legal fees.
The plan was pushed further by the LA Times, with editors saying a larger program to fund illegal immigrants’ legal fees would benefit more than 2,000 illegal immigrants:
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
So, not only do taxpayers have to support illegals they also have to pay for their lawyers as well.
There is only one thing you can do with this type of an enemy.
yeah these elite mother ####ers are getting me pissed.
They’re gonna end up with a French Revolution and they’re gonna rue the day they pulled this ### if they don’t stop.
Worthwhile for lawyer$$$$$
Editors of the LA Times should have to personally raise 3 million from their own assets as a pilot program.
Let’s see how many liberal ideas make it when they have to pony up their own money to prove the program works.
Why would a lawyer be needed. One simple question should take care of it. Do you have papers stating it is legal to reside in the US? If the answer is no....deport
Their editor missed the misspelling: “worthwhile” should read “worthless”.
Not just no, but, HELL NO!
I am already paying for the privilege of them breaking into the country and sucking up benefits to which they are not entitled, medical care, schooling, etc.
“The FIRST thing we do, let’s kill all the Lawyers.” ~ Henry VI, Part 2, Act 4, Scene 2, ~ William Tiberius Shakespeare
This sounds like one of the things we ought to report on the new registry for victims of illegals. We are all victims by having to pay for the lawyers of the illegals. This is ridiculous.
U.S. taxpayers paying shyster lawyers to help illegal aliens take their jobs! Whadda country!
PING
No, No, No. Pay for a bus ticket the nearest border crossing. Employ bus drivers, not lawyers.
HAT TIP FREEPER GRANIA——provide tax-paid legal assistance to US citizens——victims of criminals protected by sanctuary cities.
There’s something fundamentally wrong with a country tha has citizens in it that would actually entertain this idea.
I wonder how people in CA who have been shaken down to the tune of several thousand dollars by lawyers in Mexico “specializing” in US citizen cases feel about it after getting their kids out of trouble there for drinking, lewdness, customs issues, drugs (acquired there),etc. I’ve read some horror stories and it apparently is a very profitable business.
“Why would a lawyer be needed. One simple question should take care of it. Do you have papers stating it is legal to reside in the US? If the answer is no....deport”
An Islamic judge would not only deport the person involved but also have the writing hand of the lawyer cut off. Just trying to be multicultural here-each culture has its good points.
1. really bad hombres
2. illegals
3. illegal DACAs
We’re taking them in order because we don’t want the illegals using arguments that might work for some of “the children”.
CA taxpayers can pay their lawyers if they want. US? KMA!
Not with my tax dollars it isn’t. They have no rights to US taxes dollars.
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