Posted on 08/01/2021 3:10:38 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The Biden administration aims to spend millions of dollars to cover the cost of lawyers for migrants who have illegally entered the country, a prospect that has infuriated immigration restrictionists.
President Joe Biden proposed in his immigration plan released this week that Congress should make available $15 million to cover the costs of private lawyers for “families and vulnerable individuals,” with another $23 million to cover legal orientation programs administered by the Justice Department. The proposal, first outlined in Biden's fiscal year 2022 budget, is the first time that an administration has proposed covering such an expense, and the White House has not shared additional information.
The $15 million in funding would only be enough to cover several thousand people, according to a study from the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank. Immigration lawyers charge between $150 and $300 per hour.
Heritage senior fellow for homeland security Lora Ries last year examined deportation defense costs to provide a frame of reference for asylum cases and found each person spent between $2,000 and $10,000. At the lower end of $2,000 per person, 7,500 migrants would be able to have lawyers. On the higher end of $10,000 per person, just 1,500 people would be covered.
Over the past four months alone, 190,000 people illegally came across the southern border with a family member, and another 64,000 unaccompanied children arrived in America. The cost to the federal government of providing lawyers for those 250,000 family members and adults, at the $2,000 rate, would be approximately $500 million.
“They talk about providing legal representation to families and vulnerable individuals,” said Andrew Arthur, a former federal immigration judge from the York Immigration Court in Pennsylvania. “We don’t really know what that consists of, but it could be just families...
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Come on in illegals. You now have more rights than the citizens.
What about flame throwers and machine gun turrets?
The unvaccinated illegal aliens?
I fully support lawyers meting made to serve this function! The more lawyers the better.
That would mean that ACLU lawyers would have to sit in stuffy rooms for hours with covid-infected illegals by the score.
I say, let Joetato do it!
Being made … darn autocorrect
In the meantime, Patriots are locked up in a D.C. correction facility without representation.
“They talk about providing legal representation to families and vulnerable individuals,” said Andrew Arthur, a former federal immigration judge from the York Immigration Court in Pennsylvania. “We don’t really know what that consists of, but it could be just families ... or a major handout to Joe’s favorite law firms
“Biden looks to have federal government provide lawyers for migrants at border”
Braindead Biden looks to have federal government provide lawyers for illegal aliens at border
There, fixed it
Autocorrect or not you beat me by 20 seconds! lol
When the federal govt becomes tyrannical. The people have recourse to form a new govt.
Yeah. And Claymores. Start racking up some of these pests and maybe the others might get the message.
Illegals are being treated better than the 600 arrested for the alleged “insurrection”.
We owe illegal aliens nothing except a quick trip home to their own countries.
And the taxpayers will be footing the $750/hr billing.
How many is he providing for the so called Insurrectionists?
These lawyers are there to guide them through the loop holes. “Very important. Say you feared for your life.”
Just imagine if the Biden administration provided millions of dollars for lawyers for people charged with violating federal firearms laws.
You know we have a sick country when we now have 1.3 million lawyers. In the Old Testament everything went to Hell when Jews understood there was no way they could live with the Mosaic laws. As for us, there is no way we can live with 1.3 million lawyers. Hell is coming.
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