Maryland Legislature Schedules Hearings on Bills to Give Illegal Aliens Taxpayer-Funded Deportation Legal Defense
David Jaroslav
FAIR Take | January 2021
Both chambers of the Maryland General Assembly have now scheduled hearings on bills that would provide illegal aliens with attorneys to defend them from deportation, at the expense of state taxpayers.
House Bill (HB) 114, sponsored by Delegate Nicole Williams (D-Prince George’s County), and Senate Bill (SB) 129, by Senator Jeff Waldstreicher (D-Montgomery County), would:
Create a right to counsel in Maryland by foreign nationals (including illegal aliens) who live in Maryland and are detained, subject to deportation and have incomes under 50% of the median;
Create a program where taxpayer funds are administered by and overseen by the Maryland Legal Services Corporation (MLSC) for deportation defense, but MLSCserves primarily as a funnel for these public funds to open-borders groups to provide the actual immigration attorneys;
https://www.fairus.org/legislation/state-and-local-legislation/illegal-immigration/maryland-legislature-schedules-hearings
