Report: Tax Dollars Fund Deportation Lawyers for ‘free’; American Taxpayers Charged Millions to Provide Illegal Aliens with Free Lawyers, and related stories

Report: Tax dollars fund deportation lawyers for ‘free’:

Several states and cities are providing “free” legal advice to illegal immigrants facing deportation, using tax dollars in a program that is poorly policed, according to a watchdog report.

In some cases, hundreds of thousands of dollars are being diverted into “deportation defense programs,” according to the Immigration Reform Law Institute.

In its report, provided today to Secrets, IRLI showed how some cities, notably Philadelphia, team with pro-immigration groups to provide illegal immigrants legal help to avoid deportation orders.

But the legal group argued that taxpayers should not be on the hook to provide the legal services, saying, “Under U.S. law, illegal aliens and other non-citizens facing deportation orders do not have a right to legal representation because immigration law is a civil matter, not a criminal one.”

IRLI also said that oversight is rare despite expenses of $300,000 or more in taxpayer-funded payouts in some cities. —>READ MORE HERE

Exclusive–American Taxpayers Charged Millions to Provide Illegal Aliens with Free Lawyers:

American taxpayers, often unbeknownst to them, are being charged to the sum of millions to provide illegal aliens in various cities with free legal representation, an investigation exclusively shared with Breitbart News reveals.

The Immigration Reform Law Institute (IRLI) reviewed expenditures for cities that have implemented a deportation defense program that provides illegal aliens and foreign nationals with free legal representation to fight their deportations from the United States.

“Under U.S. law, illegal aliens and other non-citizens facing deportation orders do not have a right to legal representation because immigration law is a civil matter, not a criminal one,” IRLI investigators note.

The costs, as a result, are falling on American taxpayers. For Fiscal Year 2022, IRLI investigators estimate that taxpayers in 22 cities that have deportation defense programs will be charged at least $5.2 million to provide illegal aliens with free lawyers.

IRLI investigators said this estimate is conservative and does not include many other localities that have similar in-house deportation defense programs.

“These programs are an insult to every law-abiding American citizen and legal resident,” IRLI Executive Director Dale Wilcox told Breitbart News. “Our laws clearly state that non-citizens charged with civil offenses do not have a right to legal representation. Yet we have radical anti-borders groups starting these programs and sticking unknowing citizens with the bill. It’s outrageous.” —>READ MORE HERE

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