Your tax dollars are paying for the ‘rights for migrants’ legal scam

[Knight]

As a record number of migrants invade the United States, wreaking pain on New York City and other communities, one group is winning big-time: the public advocacy lawyers.

Their business is to constantly sue to win more so-called rights for migrants.

Rights to shelter, rights to meals, rights to health care, and even the right to vote in local elections.

Who pays the bills on both sides of these lawsuits? You do.

Taxpayer money largely funds these legal combatants, which include the Coalition for the Homeless, the Legal Aid Society, and the Vera Institute of Justice.

You’re paying to be legally coerced into providing more for migrants, even at the cost of cutting vital city services.

It’s absurd, but it’s about to get worse.
The New York City Council this month passed Resolution 556, calling on the state Legislature to guarantee, as a right, that all migrants have lawyers paid for by taxpayers when they go to immigration court.

It would be a “first in the nation” guarantee.

Resolution 556 would give migrants more rights than American citizens have.

No one else is guaranteed a publicly funded lawyer in civil court matters, such as housing court issues or divorce.

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[VaughanJB]

Oh dear, what could possibly go wrong with this thread?

To address your post, let's look at the obvious. Firstly, everyone is entitled to representation in court. So the immigrants are too. We should applaud this as a mainstay of justice in a civilized nation. It's amazing when you think about it, the sentence for crossing the border illegally, the first time, is a $50 fine (up to $250) with the threat of 6 months in jail. Low, huh?

Secondly, how else could a legal appeal or case work? The way to prevent immigrants is two fold: 1) Stop them getting in - which is being done to little effect; 2) Through the rule of law. Why would you deny them legal representation? An illegal immigrant isn't likely to be able to afford a lawyer, so it's either done through pro-bono organizations or perhaps through this change to the law.

On from that, upholding the law, through courts and attorneys, isn't coercion. It's simply the process of evaluation and upholding of current laws. If laws are being broken, then that should be addressed, no? Or perhaps being an illegal means you shouldn't have any protections? How far would such an idea go? If an illegal immigrant is hit by a car, should they be treated or left at the curb?

Any resolution to this problem is going to take money to solve. Building a wall, court cases, funding the Police, immigration officials - they all take money. And let's not forget, the people campaigning for this are your fellow Americans. This is how things work. Clearly some Americans think this is reasonable and fair.