DOJ tells Florida court illegal aliens can't be lawyers

Feds tell Fla. court immigrant can't be lawyer

Posted: May 22, 2013 3:06 PM PDT Updated: May 22, 2013 3:06 PM PDT

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - The U.S. Department of Justice is arguing that Florida should deny a law license to anyone who enters or remains in the country without legal permission.

Federal authorities were asked last month by the Florida Supreme Court to help it decide whether federal law precludes the court's admission of an undocumented immigrant to the Florida Bar.

Attorneys for the Department of Justice have filed a legal brief that maintains that federal law bars issuing a professional license to someone who entered the country illegally.

The court's review was requested by Jose Godinez-Samperio. He was brought into the country as a child from Mexico on a visitor's visa. He and his parents overstayed and never returned.

Godinez-Samperio graduated from law school and already has passed the Florida bar examination.

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Why don't they go back to their own country and practice law?
I mean chances are we paid for their education anyway.

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Originally Posted by posylady

Why don't they go back to their own country and practice law? . . .

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They don't want to live in Mexico anymore than you or I do.
They recognize a hell-hole when they see it.

Feds argue immigrant shouldn't get law license

The Associated Press

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- A Florida's man bid to obtain a law license despite questions about his immigration status could be coming to an end.
The U.S. Department of Justice this week filed a legal brief arguing that the state should deny a law license to anyone who enters or remains in the country without legal permission.
Attorneys for the federal government made the filing at the request of the Florida Supreme Court. Justices last month asked whether or not federal law precludes the court's admission of an undocumented immigrant to the Florida Bar.
The court's review was requested by Jose Godinez-Samperio. He came to the U.S. with his parents on visitors' visas when he was 9 years old, but the family never returned to Mexico.
He graduated from New College in Florida, earned a law degree from Florida State University and already has passed the Florida bar examination.
In its filing, attorneys for the federal government argued that professional licenses constitute a public benefit that U.S. law prohibits to someone who has entered the country illegally.

Last October, former American Bar Association president Talbot "Sandy" D'Alemberte - who represents Godinez-Samperio and taught him when he was a law student - argued the federal law doesn't apply because the Florida Supreme Court is not an "agency." He also argued the states have a constitutional right to decide who practices law in their courts. 　

　
http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/05/22/3411251/feds-tell-fla-court-immigrant.html

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