Texas Scorecard by Sydnie Henry March 8, 2023
“They don’t qualify because there’s no threat of incarceration.”A Texas judge has ruled against state-funded civil defense attorneys for illegal aliens.
As part of Operation Lone Star—Texas’ border security effort—the state is obligated to provide lawyers for illegal aliens charged with criminal matters when they are found to be indigent (unable to afford legal representation).
However, some of the lawyers assigned by the Lubbock Private Defenders Office, one organization tasked with defending illegal aliens in criminal cases by the Texas Indigent Defense Commission, have been attempting to defend illegal aliens in civil court as well—on the taxpayers’ dime.
Now, Judge David Garcia has ruled against that practice during a hearing.
Assistant Kinney County Attorney Tom Roberson argued before the court that the illegal aliens’ bond forfeiture cases “are not OLS cases, like the criminal case that they were arrested for.”
More:
https://texasscorecard.com/state/judge-rules-texas-wont-fund-civil-defense-attorneys-for-illegal-aliens/
