Posted on 09/09/2007 11:29:29 AM PDT by 3AngelaD
Investigators subpoenaed records from a prominent California legal aid group to determine whether it has violated federal rules by using taxpayer money to perform work for illegal aliens. The California Rural Legal Assistance Corp. (CRLA), which is fighting the subpoena, has until next week to explain to a judge why it should not turn over client records to the federal Legal Services Corp...investigators say they've been stymied in the probe into whether the California legal group focuses its resources on farm worker and Latino issues while limiting services to inner-city residents and others...
...a report by the Legal Services' inspector general to Congress last year found the legal aid group's management practices "at least create the condition in which representing ineligible aliens is possible without detection."
...The Legal Services Corp is a federally funded agency that funds organizations to provide legal services to low-income people, including paying more than half of the California Rural Legal Assistance Corp.'s $12.5 million budget...
The director of the legal aid group said the organization does not provide services to illegal aliens because federal rules prohibit the practice. Violations could jeopardize federal funding under federal rules.
"You cannot serve undocumented clients with federal dollars," said Jose Padilla, executive director of the group...Mr. Padilla said his organization is fighting the subpoena for thousands of client records because of concern over client confidentiality...But federal investigators say the subpoena seeks "non-privileged" documents and makes no demand for personal social security information or case summaries...
The interim report to Congress last year also found that Mr. Padilla broke rules against engaging in political activity as an endorser of a petition called "The World Can't Wait: Drive Out the Bush Regime"...According to the group's tax return, Mr. Padilla earned a salary of $121,000 in 2005.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
All enemies foreign & domestic...
A practice that’s probably going on all across the country and will continue to do so until they’ve drained us of what benefits are left.
CRLA
‘nuff said.
Yes, American taxpayers continue to be robbed blind by illegals across the land. See: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1893582/posts
No one seems able to tell the truth anymore as long as they're sucking off America's tit, Jose. Those who Jose calls "undocumented clients" (ILLEGAL ALIENS) have every false document possible, and via this fraud and the pandering of our own government, are sucking America dry. They're laughing their heads off at the stupid American taxpayer.
How about everyone start telling the truth, including the so-called American media? Sickening.
“Legal aid group subpoenaed on suspected service to illegals”
Hallelujah!!!!!!!!!
Hallelujah!!!!!!!!!
Hallelujah!!!!!!!!!
It's a start.
Sign the Call to Drive Out the Bush Regime
Your government, on the basis of outrageous lies, is waging a murderous and utterly illegitimate war in Iraq, with other countries in their sights.
Your government is openly torturing people, and justifying it.
Your government puts people in jail on the merest suspicion, refusing them lawyers, and either holding them indefinitely or deporting them in the dead of night.
Your government is moving each day closer to a theocracy, where a narrow and hateful brand of Christian fundamentalism will rule.
Your government suppresses the science that doesn't fit its religious, political and economic agenda, forcing present and future generations to pay a terrible price.
Your government is moving to deny women here, and all over the world, the right to birth control and abortion.
Your government enforces a culture of greed, bigotry, intolerance and ignorance.
People look at all this and think of Hitler and they are right to do so. The Bush regime is setting out to radically remake society very quickly, in a fascist way, and for generations to come. We must act now; the future is in the balance...
And there is a way. We are talking about something on a scale that can really make a huge change in this country and in the world. We need more than fighting Bush's outrages one at a time, constantly losing ground to the whole onslaught. We must, and can, aim to create a political situation where the Bush regime's program is repudiated, where Bush himself is driven from office, and where the whole direction he has been taking society is reversed. We, in our millions, must and can take responsibility to change the course of history...
The World Can't Wait! Drive Out the Bush Regime!
The MSM telling the truth?
Why, that would be an infringement on the 1st amendment in their minds.
They, after all, are journalists not just reporters.
Welcome to George Bush’s America.
http://www.windsofchange.net/archives/008625.php
Lying sack of shi-, they do it all the time, call a legals aids office and you'll get the old press 2 for Spanish.
http://www.ejm.lsc.gov/EJMIssue10/feature_T40_R2.php
CAUTION! Reading this may RAISE YOR BLOOD PRESSURE!
Immigration Counters (Real-Time Data Resource Center)
The High Cost of Cheap Labor - Illegal Immigration and the Federal Budget (2004 Study)
The Unpleasant FACTS ARE
>>Both studies found that immigrants used government services at a greater rate than native-born residents did. The New Jersey study found, for instance, that the typical immigrant family received about $4,044 annually in government services, about 11 percent higher than the average native-born family. At the same time, immigrant households paid about 8 percent less in taxes. The net result was that “the average native household generated an annual fiscal surplus of $232” to government, while “the typical foreign household was a net burden of $1,484.” The gap was even wider in California, where immigrant households produced a net deficit of $3,463 each, because so much of that state’s recent immigration had been in the form of low-wage, low-skill workers.
Though the study did not distinguish between legal and illegal immigrants, it did break down foreign-born households by the regions of the world from which they had come. In both states, the study found the steepest deficit in Latin American households, which in New Jersey consumed 26 percent more in government expenditures than the average native-born family, but paid 38 percent less in taxes. By contrast, immigrant households in New Jersey that hailed from Europe or Canada actually consumed, on average, less in government services than the typical native-born family, and paid nearly as much in taxes.<<
Source: http://www.city-journal.org/html/eon2007-08-29sm.html
amen...and muchas gracias jorge bush!!!
B T T T
I think he prefers that it be called AMEXICA.
nice name he’s go ,too. He really is an enemy combatant.
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