Bush DOJ Rule Revokes Immigrants’ Right to Counsel
This last-minute decision has gotten little media attention, but it has dismayed immigration lawyers, who say clients frequently come to them with legitimate asylum or other claims that should allow them to remain in the United States, but that their previous lawyers either didn’t know the law, missed a critical deadline or just didn’t bother to communicate with their client. For the last 20 years, immigrants have had the right to re-open a case if ... Full Story »
Posted by Derek Hawkins
The true character of a people can best be shown by how they treat the least of those among them. I hate to think what this says about us as a people