Thread: Free legal service for illegals

From LapTopAmerica.net:

Does Constitution grant funding of free legal services?
Concern grows that illegals may get help at taxpayers expense!


"This is the time to let elected officials know they (Americans) are opposed to paying for free lawyers for those who are here illegally," Boehm says.

The federally funded Legal Services Corporation, which pays for 138 legal aid programs and has 700 offices nationwide -- supposedly to help poor Americans gain equal access to the judicial system -- currently is prohibited from giving legal aid to illegals. Since 1974, LSC has received about $6 billion, according to Boehm. Ken Boehm is co-founder and chairman of the National Legal and Policy Center, a Virginia nonpartisan foundation promoting ethics in public life. He also is not delusional.

No one need be a visionary to picture a day so surreal when taxpayers pay for legal representation for illegals. It almost happened a few months ago (2006) and it could happen before you know it if opponents of illegal immigration are not vigilant once Congress (with all those new members, mostly Democrats) convenes in January.

"Once again, the government was requiring taxpayers to pay for something not in the best interest of taxpayers," Boehm says about this year's U.S. Senate immigration bill. "In effect, it's an entitlement program for criminals."

The controversial 614-page immigration "reform" legislation passed by the Senate in May would have done so much more damage than just giving amnesty to millions of illegal aliens. In the AgJOBS amendment, illegal aliens seeking amnesty could get "free" legal counseling paid by American taxpayers. The bill also required the alien to have an attorney file the application for him.

The amendment said that recipients of funds under the Legal Services Corporation Act "shall not be prevented" from providing legal assistance directly related to an application for adjustment of status under this section -- Washington-speak for illegals wanting to be legals. Budget Line-Item FY 06 Appropriation
(in millions)
Basic Field $308.4
Census Adjustment $1.8
Technology Initiatives $1.2
Management & Administration $12.7
Inspector General $2.5
BUDGET TOTALS $326.6


$326 M-I-L-L-I-O-N!
Under what section of the Constitution grants Congress to appropriate funds for legal services? Article 1, section 8 list the enumerated powers and for the life of us at LaptopAmerica, we don't find legal services! Especially legal services paid for out of taxpayer funds!

LSC funds 138 legal aid programs with 700 offices around the nation to help poor Americans gain equal access to the judicial system. Legal Services Corporation is barred from giving legal aid to illegals but with the new Democrat revolution, all that could change!

I am sick to death of the way our own government is taking advantage of American taxpayers. How diabolical is this, these people are here stealing our jobs, taking benefits that should belong uniquely to legal tax paying citizens, now we are having to foot the bill for these illegal persons lawyer bills in which they seek to sue for those same rights that should belong only to legal US citizens!

I don't know what is more a destruction to our country, these illegals or those supporting them. Both are parasites!