Illegal immigrants
convicted of murder,
rape would be eligible
for taxpayer-funded
lawyers if they have
a "potentially
meritorious" case
The Montgomery County Council has introduced a "special appropriation" of $373,957 to fund free lawyers for illegal immigrants facing deportation. County Councilmember Nancy Navarro said she was proud that the Council would use taxpayer funds to defend illegal immigrants from deportation, adding that Tuesday's proposal "doubled down on our commitment to protect our immigrant community."
While the Council resolution claims in one section that illegal immigrants convicted of violent crimes such as murder and rape would not be eligible for the taxpayer-funded legal assistance, that claim is negated by later wording.
On Page 3 of the resolution, the text notes that illegal immigrants convicted of murder, rape, sexual offenses, armed carjacking, kidnapping, child kidnapping, sexual abuse of a minor, child abuse, gang participation, human trafficking and "abducting a child under 16 for prostitution" would be eligible for taxpayer-funded legal counsel if "the individual has a potentially meritorious claim for immigration relief from removal in the form of a claim to United States citizenship, protection under the Convention Against Torture, U/T Visa, or Refugee Adjustment."
A public hearing on the appropriation will be held on May 1 at the County Council Building, located at 100 Maryland Avenue in Rockville. The County is currently facing a budget shortfall of $208,000,000.
Great! Humanitarian effort.
ReplyDeleteStop Henny-pennying. The sky isn't falling.
5:05: Taxpayers funding lawyers to keep people convicted of the crimes listed above in our community is something you approve of? That's an extremist position, for sure.
DeleteWhen's your next campaign event? I have questions .
ReplyDeleteHobby blog
ReplyDeleteHobby musician
Hobby candidate
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Mr. Hobby Dyer.
Robert, have you considered buying campaign ads on Bethesda Beat? You'd get a lot more eyeballs that way.
ReplyDelete5:11am how much for a full page glossy ad?
DeleteControl spending! Send the illegals home!
ReplyDeleteThe old legacy print media Washington Post reported this yesterday morning, Old Sport.
ReplyDelete5:28: I have yesterday's paper - there was no such report in it.
DeleteLawless Council will lead to more lawlessness and violent crime in the county.
ReplyDeleteHans Riemer Arrested.
How is guaranteeing the right to legal representation being "lawless"?
ReplyDeleteRoberts #FAKE #FAKE NEWS.
ReplyDelete11:05: What's fake about it? Please be specific.
DeleteRobert, aren't you defeating your purpose of having four separate blogs, by posting your racial dog-whistles on the Bethesda blog? I thought that was the purpose of your East County and Rockville blogs.
ReplyDelete11:14: Reporting on a proposed Council resolution is a "dog whistle?" The purpose of all 3 news sites is to report the news. And this proposed resolution is indeed news. Now pick up Helpless Hans Riemer's dry cleaning before he fires you.
Delete"I have yesterday's paper - there was no such report in it."
ReplyDeleteThat's odd. I was under the impression that you thought paper was obsolete.
@Dyer 11:30: April 17 @ 10:45 a.m. Eastern Time / 7:45 a.m. Dyer Time:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.washingtonpost.com/local/md-politics/montgomery-council-to-vote-on-funding-lawyers-for-immigrants-facing-deportation/2018/04/16/b635b8c0-417e-11e8-ad8f-27a8c409298b_story.html
"What's fake about it? Please be specific."
ReplyDelete...says Robert Dyer.
Where does the proposal say the funds won't be provided to immigrants convicted of certain crimes? I see where it says they will if there's an affirmative finding that they may have a meritorious claim.
ReplyDelete12:34: Notice the Post article doesn't mention that rapists, murderers and child molesters will be able to obtain taxpayer-funded lawyers if they have "potentially meritorious" cases.
ReplyDelete5:37: Read the whole section there - it first claims they won't be eligible, then at the end, it notes they WILL be eligible if the nonprofit declares their cases are "potentially meritorious."
Illegal aliens have no rights in the US any council member protecting them needs to be arrested and prosecuted fully.
ReplyDelete8:24 PM - Several decades of legal precedent say you are wrong. There is no such distinction in the US Constitution.
ReplyDeleteHenny-pennying. To answer your question, yes. I do approve of due process for all individuals...like our constitution states.
ReplyDeleteFrom The Hill 2015:
"The U.S. Supreme Court settled the issue well over a century ago. But even before the court laid the issue to rest, a principal author of the Constitution, James Madison, the fourth president of the United States, wrote: "that as they [aliens], owe, on the one hand, a temporary obedience, they are entitled, in return, to their [constitutional] protection and advantage."
More recently, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Zadvydas v. Davis (2001) that "due process" of the 14th Amendment applies to all aliens in the United States whose presence maybe or is "unlawful, involuntary or transitory.""