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DOJ orders federally funded legal service providers to stop providing support at immigration courts
https://abcnews.go.com ^ | 1/23/2025 | laura romero

Posted on 01/23/2025 6:49:12 PM PST by bitt

Legal service providers help individuals navigate immigration court proceedings.

The Department of Justice, under new leadership following the inauguration of Donald Trump, has told legal service providers who receive federal funding to stop providing legal orientation and other work intended to support immigrants at immigration courts.

In a memo obtained by ABC News, the DOJ ordered all such legal providers on Wednesday to "stop work immediately" in those areas.

"This email is to send you notification to stop work immediately pursuant to the Executive Order on the following task orders," the memo said. The programs listed in the memo include the Legal Orientation Program; the Immigration Court Helpdesk; the Family Group Legal Orientation Program; and the Counsel for Children Initiative.

Legal service providers are usually present at immigration courts across the country to help individuals navigate immigration court proceedings and handle legal paperwork.

"The suspension of these longstanding programs could leave hundreds of thousands of vulnerable immigrants -- including children and families -- without access to basic legal information and representation," a spokesperson for Acacia Center for Justice told ABC News in a statement.

(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...


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KEYWORDS: abc; abcnews; acaciacenter; aliens; doj; estrellatv; immigrationcourts; lauraromero; legalservices; telemundo; telemundoreporter
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1 posted on 01/23/2025 6:49:12 PM PST by bitt
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To: null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; AZ .44 MAG; Baynative; bgill; bitt; ...

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2 posted on 01/23/2025 6:49:26 PM PST by bitt (<img src=' 'width=30%>)
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To: bitt

Then let all the fat cat Alt Left law firms, the “sanctuary states”, the NGOS and the Catholic Church to start picking up the tab


3 posted on 01/23/2025 6:57:26 PM PST by MNJohnnie (Don't blame me, my congressman is MTG!)
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To: bitt

Article:

“The suspension of these longstanding programs could leave hundreds of thousands of vulnerable immigrants — including children and families — without access to basic legal information and representation”

Exactly.

They are illegal aliens.

They have zero rights here.


4 posted on 01/23/2025 6:57:51 PM PST by cgbg (It is time to pull the Deep State out of the mass media--like ticks from a dog.)
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To: bitt

They’re not immigrants. Immigrants enter this country legally and follow our laws and procedures. These are illegal aliens.

That is all.


5 posted on 01/23/2025 6:58:58 PM PST by Orosius (A“Wake America Up Again )
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To: bitt

Bravo. Why should we be funding legal representation for illegal aliens?


6 posted on 01/23/2025 7:02:03 PM PST by ETCM (“There is no security, no safety, in the appeasement of evil.” — Ronald Reagan)
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To: bitt

“The suspension of these longstanding programs..........”
GOOD! The invadrs have had too much help, time to just deport them.
Regardless of age, if they were able to get here they are able to LEAVE!


7 posted on 01/23/2025 7:14:49 PM PST by Ex gun maker. (Free thinking is now a radical concept, I will not be assimilated by PC or EV group-think!)
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To: bitt

Pay for your own damn lawyers like the rest of ys.


8 posted on 01/23/2025 7:25:47 PM PST by chuckb87
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To: MNJohnnie

“Then let all the fat cat Alt Left law firms, the “sanctuary states”, the NGOS and the Catholic Church to start picking up the tab”

indeed ... but it’ll take weeks of chaos to establish such private funding and re-enroll illegal aliens currently receiving free Federal legal help ...


9 posted on 01/23/2025 7:29:40 PM PST by catnipman ((A Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Still Counts As A Vote For Evil))
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To: catnipman

Yep change is hard.


10 posted on 01/23/2025 7:45:11 PM PST by MNJohnnie (Don't blame me, my congressman is MTG!)
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To: bitt

YAYYYYY!
...not tired of winning


11 posted on 01/23/2025 7:55:56 PM PST by Z28.310 (does not comply well with others)
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To: MNJohnnie

yes...let’s watch them get bled out like they do to us


12 posted on 01/23/2025 8:41:42 PM PST by magna carta
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13 posted on 01/23/2025 8:43:11 PM PST by ransomnote (IN GOD WE TRUST)
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To: bitt

“help individuals navigate immigration court proceedings and handle legal paperwork.”

Help illegal immigrants to break the law? These lawyers are lucky they’re not being charged with aiding and abetting illegal immigration.


14 posted on 01/23/2025 8:45:00 PM PST by grumpygresh ( Civil disobedience by non-compliance; jury and state nullification.)
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To: bitt

ABC’s reporter cites this source:

“’The suspension of these longstanding programs could leave hundreds of thousands of vulnerable immigrants — including children and families — without access to basic legal information and representation,’ a spokesperson for Acacia Center for Justice told ABC News in a statement.”

Here is what ABC’s source says on their own site:

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https://acaciajustice.org/about-us/

The U.S. immigration detention and deportation system is not “broken,” but is intentionally designed to exploit, exclude, criminalize, detain, and deport people who have historically been viewed as undeserving of inclusion in our national fabric, particularly Black and brown people.

Thus, racial justice is the necessary starting point for transforming this system. Acacia understands, too, that racial justice is fundamentally intersectional with the many other grounds – economic class, gender, sexual orientation, religion, physical ability, and mental health status – illegitimately used to exclude, detain, and deport.”


15 posted on 01/23/2025 8:58:56 PM PST by Fedora
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I’m brown and US citizen.

These illegal aliens need to be deported.


16 posted on 01/23/2025 9:08:58 PM PST by Redcitizen
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To: bitt
From the article: ...could leave hundreds of thousands of vulnerable immigrants -- including children and families -- without access to basic legal information and representation

The basic legal information for them is "You are an invader. Get out."

As for representation; their representation is back in their home country, not here.

17 posted on 01/23/2025 9:26:43 PM PST by T.B. Yoits
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To: bitt

“The suspension of these longstanding programs could leave hundreds of thousands of vulnerable immigrants — including children and families — without access to basic legal information and representation.”

That’s kind of the point.

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18 posted on 01/23/2025 10:01:17 PM PST by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: MNJohnnie

Yep, kind of like BYOR…. Bring Your Own Rope to your hanging…..


19 posted on 01/23/2025 10:07:58 PM PST by Lockbox (politicians, they all seemed like game show host to me.... Sting)
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To: bitt
More winning...and make sure the various NGO's are stopped in their tracks.

and big financial penalties for ignoring PDJT's orders.

20 posted on 01/23/2025 10:14:03 PM PST by spokeshave (Proud Boys, Angry Dads. Grumpy Grandads & Curmudgeons)
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