Thread: New Bill Makes Taxpayers Pay Illegal Alien Legal Bill!!

NLPC: New Immigration Bill Makes Taxpayers Pay Illegal Alien Legal Bills



Ken Boehm, Chairman of the National Legal and Policy Center (NLPC), today criticized the immigration bill crafted in secret by Senators led by Ted Kennedy (D-MA) and Arlen Specter (R-PA).

Boehm said, "If passed, this bill will make taxpayers pay the legal bills for illegal aliens seeking amnesty. Tucked away on page 317 is a provision that would allow lawyers in the federally-funded legal services program to represent illegal aliens, which they are presently barred from doing."

John Carlisle, NLPC's Director of Policy, said, "Many taxpayers will be chagrined to learn they may soon have to provide a lawyer for illegal aliens who should not be here in the first place. Activist lawyers, illegal aliens and government money are a bad mix."

The federally-funded Legal Services Corporation (LSC) supports s a network of lawyers in hundreds of communities in the country to provide civil (not criminal) day-to-day legal help to poor people. This year, LSC will receive $330 million. Since it was founded in 1974, LSC has received over $6 billion.


The authorizing language states: Section 504(a)(11) of Public Law 104-134 (110 Stat. 1321 et seq.) shall not be construed to prevent a recipient of funds under the Legal Services Corporation Act (42 U.S.C. 2996 et seq.) from providing legal assistance directly related to an application for a Z-A visa under subsection (b) or an adjustment of status under subsection (j).

This negates a provision approved by Congress in 1996, with NLPC's input, that prevents LSC-funded lawyers from representing illegal aliens. The restriction was necessary because legal services lawyers have a long history of promoting illegal immigration and showing contempt for the ban on representing illegals.

For instance, legal services lawyers filed lawsuits to overturn California's Proposition 187, a ballot measure approved by the state's voters in 1994 that banned most government services for illegal aliens. California Rural Legal Assistance (CRLA), a major LSC grantee, is currently under investigation by the LSC inspector general for representing undocumented workers.

CRLA has joined with the American Civil Liberties Union in overturning a day labor law in Vista, California.

In 2006, the Legal Aid Society of Middle Tennessee successfully sued the state Department of Labor and Workforce Development because the notice it issued to a legal immigrant denying him unemployment benefits was written in English.

The Legal Assistance Foundation of Metropolitan Chicago (LAF) is currently trying to prevent the deportation of a Mexican citizens convicted of crimes.

Prior to the enactment of the congressional restriction, legal services lawyers filed lawsuits to require state agencies to give drivers licenses to illegal aliens.

NLPC promotes ethics in public life, and sponsors the Legal Services Accountability Project. Boehm is a former Counsel to the LSC Board.





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Nice.

More digging that's done... the worse it gets..

Never trust these polticians. The only thing worse than a politician is an illegal immigrant.

Blood boiling Alert!!!!!

Where can I renounce my citizenship and become an illegal

APRIL, ME TOO!
BLOOD BOILING, TEETH KNASHING, DUCT TAPE WRAPPING PISSED OFF TEXAN!

Originally Posted by steelerbabe

Where can I renounce my citizenship and become an illegal

Just go down to the Mexican consulate and get a Matricula Consular card. All you need is a fake Mexican birth certificate. Go to the day labor hangout and ask where you can get fake ID.