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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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
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.
They’re not immigrants. Immigrants enter this country legally and follow our laws and procedures. These are illegal aliens.
That is all.
Bravo. Why should we be funding legal representation for illegal aliens?
“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!
Pay for your own damn lawyers like the rest of ys.
“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 ...
Yep change is hard.
YAYYYYY!
...not tired of winning
yes...let’s watch them get bled out like they do to us
“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.
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.”
I’m brown and US citizen.
These illegal aliens need to be deported.
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.
“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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Yep, kind of like BYOR…. Bring Your Own Rope to your hanging…..
and big financial penalties for ignoring PDJT's orders.
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