Taxpayer-Funded Immigration Group Works To ‘Disrupt Trump’s Deportation Machine’

Washington Free Beacon ^ | February 17, 2025 | Chuck Ross

[kevcol]

The Washington, D.C., nonprofit, is running advertisements on Facebook soliciting donations to "disrupt Trump’s deportation machine" and to "stop Trump’s deportation dystopia." Another ad says "See you in court, Trump," a reference to a lawsuit that the Amica Center has filed to block President Donald Trump’s executive order, "Protecting the American People Against Invasion," which paused funding for several Justice Department programs that provide legal services for illegal aliens.
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In a lawsuit filed on Jan. 31, the Amica Center and several other pro-immigration groups say that Trump’s spending freeze "will have immediate, devastating, and irreparable effects" on their operations. According to the lawsuit, the Justice Department’s LOP accounts for 20 percent of the Amica Center’s budget for a program to represent adult illegal aliens.

"Amica Center has already had to divert funding for one of its LOP employees to another program and predicts it will have to make other diversions going forward, leading to potential layoffs if funding is not restored in the short-term," the lawsuit says.

[kevcol]

[lgjhn23]

Crate em up ans ship em out;
Illegals to whatever craphole they crawled out of.
Citizens that assisted em get to go off to GITMO to face trial for treason.

[BenLurkin]

Never will you find a greater collection of clueless-looking know-it-alls from cushy childhoods and educated in nothing but ideology.

[DownInFlames]

See you in court? You Betcha as defendants violation immigration laws.

[AndyJackson]

Trump’s spending freeze "will have immediate, devastating, and irreparable effects" on their operations. According to the lawsuit, the Justice Department’s LOP accounts for 20 percent of the Amica Center’s budget for a program to represent adult illegal aliens.

And what are the other sources of taxpayer money funding this operation?

[Blue Highway]

3/4 of those people in the Amica photo need to be deported and the others need to be gone over with a rectal exam by DOGE

[Brian Griffin]

court -> holding cell -> airplane

¡Adios!

[Blue Highway]

Flowchart for MAGA

[falcon99]

“”will have immediate, devastating, and irreparable effects” on their operations.”

Well, when their operation is funded by the US taxpayer and their operation is against the interests of the nation and the well being of its citizens, that is a good thing.

[Flint]

Sounds like the kind of folks that Holman says will be arrested and charged.

[Brian Griffin]

The invaders, their employers and the politicians need to know that most citizens of the USA are not willing to live in tents along the streets, in the parks and in the wilderness.

[silent majority rising]

I hope Bondi is investigating who is behind all the lawfare. It has to stop.

[Brian Griffin]

Quotes from the Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees:

Article 31. - Refugees unlawfully in the country of refuge

1. The Contracting States shall not impose penalties, on account of their illegal entry or presence, on refugees who, coming directly from a territory where their life or freedom was threatened in the sense of article 1, enter or are present in their territory without authorization, provided they present themselves without delay to the authorities and show good cause for their illegal entry or presence.
2. The Contracting States shall not apply to the movements of such refugees restrictions other than those which are necessary and such restrictions shall only be applied until their status in the country is regularized or they obtain admission into another country. The Contracting States shall allow such refugees a reasonable period and all the necessary facilities to obtain admission into another country.

Article 32. - Expulsion

1. The Contracting States shall not expel a refugee lawfully in their territory save on grounds of national security or public order.
2. The expulsion of such a refugee shall be only in pursuance of a decision reached in accordance with due process of law. Except where compelling reasons of national security otherwise require, the refugee shall be allowed to submit evidence to clear himself, and to appeal to and be represented for the purpose before competent authority or a person or persons specially designated by the competent authority....

Article 23 - Public relief

The Contracting States shall accord to refugees lawfully staying in their territory the same treatment with respect to public relief and assistance as is accorded to their nationals.

Article 17 - Wage-earning employment
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2. In any case, restrictive measures imposed on aliens or the employment of aliens for the protection of the national labour market shall not be applied to a refugee...who fulfils one of the following conditions:
(a) He has completed three years’ residence in the country;
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(c) He has one or more children possessing the nationality of the country of residence.

Article 34 - Naturalization [and getting the right to vote (and buy AR-15s)]

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https://www.ohchr.org/en/instruments-mechanisms/instruments/convention-relating-status-refugees

Article 44 - Denunciation [getting out from under the Refugee Convention]
1. Any Contracting State may denounce this Convention at any time by a notification addressed to the Secretary-General of the United Nations.
2. Such denunciation shall take effect for the Contracting State concerned one year from the date upon which it is received by the Secretary-General of the United Nations....

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It’s time for Trump to send (or hand deliver) the Secretary-General of the United Nations Antonio Guterres a letter!

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Dear Secretary-General of the United Nations:

I, Donald J. Trump, the President of the United States, on behalf of the United States, do denounce the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees and its 1967 Protocol, as permitted by Article 44.

Donald J. Trump

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The Refugee Convention, the invaders’ red carpet, must be removed from the Democratic Party toolbox by invoking Article 44.

[Uncle Miltie]

Layoffs happen, pal.

Welcome to the real world.

[FlingWingFlyer]

When did American decide to allow illegal aliens to run America’s immigration program?

[TornadoAlley3]

Harboring criminals
Aiding and abetting
Interfering with an investigation
Misappropriating taxpayer dollars

[usurper]

According to the lawsuit, the Justice Department’s LOP accounts for 20 percent of the Amica Center’s budget for a program to represent adult illegal aliens.

All of these expenditures are illegal. Federal law does not authorize federally funded legal expenses/services for immigrants in administrative removal proceedings. PERIOD.

[Bon of Babble]

They can stamp their feet all the want - and believe they represent the "general will" - the numbers say otherwise:

Homeland Security:

"The numbers speak for themselves: Almost 60% of Americans back Trump’s deportations of illegal immigrants and two-thirds support his decision to send U.S. troops to secure the southern border.

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[No name given]

I’m thinking we all know who is funding these groups. Hint: he’s a major demonrat party donor who helped the Nazis during World War Two.

[blackdog]

Applying critical thinking, they are doing so to protect their “Democrat Immigration Machine”. Can’t have it without admitting so.