Immigrant advocacy groups file lawsuit after legal orientation programs are shuttered

[rangerrebew]

Immigrant advocacy groups file lawsuit after legal orientation programs are shuttered
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A group of immigrant advocacy centers and nonprofits has filed a lawsuit against the Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland Security for shutting down legal orientation programs for immigrants, including people detained at ICE detention facilities.

The lawsuit was filed a week after the Department of Justice told legal service providers who receive federal funding to stop providing legal orientation and other work intended to support immigrants at immigration court and detention facilities.
 
"With increased detentions, rapid deportation processes, and new detention centers, legal access to these detention centers to ensure these activities are being carried out following applicable laws has never been more important," the lawsuit says. "The Programs at issue here are thus essential: they provide basic due process to noncitizens and they ensure lawyers are regularly inside detention centers to observe or be told about potential legal violations."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/immigrant-advocacy-groups-file-lawsuit-after-legal-orientation-programs-are-shuttered/ar-AA1ycYMW?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=HCTS&cvid=37d4beba380e43a9946430548ed70ca9&ei=35

[GtHawk]

Life sucks sometimes, show me where ‘legal’ immigrants were impacted by the shuttering, I’m gonna guess that the only affected are illegal immigrants who have no business receiving a single federal penny. I suggest these groups find non governmental charity money if they want to promote and aid lawbreakers.

[libertybele]

Life sucks sometimes, show me where ‘legal’ immigrants were impacted by the shuttering, I’m gonna guess that the only affected are illegal immigrants who have no business receiving a single federal penny. I suggest these groups find non governmental charity money if they want to promote and aid lawbreakers.

You are more than likely absolutely correct.

[GtHawk]

You are more than likely absolutely correct.

We need to slam the border shut, sort out all the illegals and then go back to having quotas, people proving they can support themselves and be a benefit to America or require those seeking to immigrate first have a financially responsible sponsor and ban immigrants from asking for or receiving any aid whatsoever from federal or state agencies for a period of years with violations resulting in deportation. That’s how it was when my parents were accepted for immigration in 1950 and it worked for them, millions of others, and America. No more of this automatic enrollment on the government dole with benefits Americans are refused.

[Hoodat]

They aren't suing because immigrants were impacted.  They're suing because their access to federal dollars just got cut off.

[Bigun]

Why in the hell was the federal government EVER subsidizing organizations that contionually violate  federal law?

[DB]

"Nonprofits" that are not on their dime...

[IsailedawayfromFR]

Life sucks sometimes, show me where ‘legal’ immigrants were impacted by the shuttering, I’m gonna guess that the only affected are illegal immigrants who have no business receiving a single federal penny. I suggest these groups find non governmental charity money if they want to promote and aid lawbreakers.

absolutely.  It is cutting off the federal money.

No one is stopping them from raising more money from other than federal sources.

The historical precedent during most of the life of this country is that no federal money is spent on such nonsense.