Thread: Immigration "attorneys", really?

There seems to be scads of these "immigration attorneys" around. Any big city, any corner. I'm not positive, but I'll take a wild guess that one of their jobs is to stop us from enforcing our immigration laws and to enable their foreign clients to get around US laws, evade deportation etc etc.

Since each state has a bar association I believe you can check online who has a current license to practice law and who does not by just putting in a name.

If illegals can get phony ID, wouldn't some of them also easily purchase phony licenses, attorney, PHD, Doctor, etc. etc.?

There's diploma mills that will sell anyone a fraudulent document saying you completed university, served in the armed forces, etc etc. These paper factories are harder to find now than they were twenty years ago, but they're out there. Plus illegal know of other sources where they can find whatever document they want.

Does any official organization verify if these attorneys are who they claim they are? If even one or two were exposed as phony, it would probably mean the illegals they helped would be back to square one.

Several times in the past, some of our own lawmakers were caught using phony documents of schools they never attended and so forth. In that same vein I wonder if these fancy spokesholes of Lulac and La Raza have the background and education they claim they have. I have nothing concrete but suspicions, however using phony documents is standard modus operandi for illegals. Why would they stop at just a ssn#?

Your thoughts?

1. I love your user picture.

2. I see many immigration lawyers here in Miami. In fact I should count how many immigration lawyers with an english ad Vs. a spanish ad are in my phonebook.

3. I wanna find a website if there is one exsistant to check if these lawyers are legit or not.

Agreed! ...They're all over NYC, and the insinuation is they can help you "get around" immigration law. Very suspicious.

I think it goes back to the notion of upward mobility following World War 2. College education became an option for the masses...and universities started cranking out a greatly increased percentage of the population that expected professional vocations. Now we have 60 years of that trend. Anyone who can store and regurgitate information can get through college. This does not necessarily mean that they will be contributing anything of significant value to our culture.

(Note: I am not criticizing college educated people whose work is vital: Nurses are one of my favorite examples. They're great. I know we need accountants, engineers, etc. However the sociological trend of trying to lift everyone up to higher education is imbalanced.)

A burgeoning professional class--in a nutshell those who manage and administer--especially one demanding high salaries, will necessarily be dependent upon a productive underclass. How else will actual value be produced? When too many people seek to go into managerial, administrative or "professional' work, there will be a greater demand for materially productive people. To make things right requires decisons at the individual level. I.e. will society be better served if I get a degree or if I start doing work that has an immediate material consequence? By serving society I mean preserving the cultural status quo---and not drifting into the dangerous new territory of embracing an opportunistic new group of outsiders.

So now as a continuation of that trend of higher education as cure-all--we have many, many new law grads, trained to argue a point to absurdity and all looking for well paid work. It is no wonder that their lawsuits are now demanding huge outlays of cash, especially from governments. And immigration law is a cause celebre with lots of enjoyable company. Heaven help us.