Last week, lawyers who provided basic legal information to detainees at federal immigration centers were expelled from facilities after several federal -funded plans. One plan provided lawyers to children in deportation measures, and the other provided basic legal information.
This action is a part of Trump Wide -driven To weaken or marginalize parts of the immigration system that supports prisoners.
The judiciary refused to comment.
In the email sent last week, the company claimed that the company was non -profit Acacia Center for JusticeIt coordinates the projects, citing the latest administrative order of President Donald Trump, “immediately stop work”. The directive guides members of its cabinet to suspend funds for contracts and subsidies that provide services to immigrants without legal status. It calls for the disciplinary contracts that find waste and fraud.
“The suspension of these long -term programs may leave hundreds of thousands of vulnerable immigrants, including children and families, without access to basic law information and representation,” said Shaina Aber, Managing Director of the Acacia Center for Acacia for Justice. The group manages eight federally -funded plans, including more than 130 non -profit groups and private lawyers across the country, including four victims.
A help desk in busy immigration court rooms, basic law information for individual and families, basic law information for the so -called “legal orientation” and some lawyers for children, may have been separated from their families, including San Diego.
Supporters of President Trump's immigration policies say they simply need to eliminate people who are not recognized in the country.
US Representative Tarrell Isa (R-Vista) said, “The illegal immigration disaster for the past four years.” “In response to this, Donald Trump campaigned and he clearly selected such pledge. He has my support and he is worthy of guidance and success.”
Diaspora lawyers claim that funding suspension eliminates most of the opportunities for detained immigrants without a lawyer. It comes as Trump moves Fast-Track TransitImmigration agents eliminated policies and asylum suspended ways to prevent entering schools, churches and hospitals. Unlike criminal courts, non -citizens cannot access free advice, but a lawyer has the right to represent them.
San Diego, who has contracted with the group, represents about 20 children aged eight to 17 years of age. Despite the funds, the Night said that they were constantly representing them, and the area established in the courts to reduce backing in the courts.
“When a judge comes out of the courtroom and sees an eight -year -old child sitting on the table, it will cause extended measures, more delays, more continuity, because suddenly this judge with a large cassalot is now needed, what are their rights for eight years of age, and how the application for asylum To find out how to fill up, I am explaining how to get the documents, ”he said.
The Government of California is expected to sign the law in the coming weeks of Gavin Newsome, which will set aside Million 25 million for pro -bono lawyers who provide legal services to immigrants and other groups, which expect that it will be targeted by transgender man, including transgender people.
In California, lawyers say that finance is only part of the problem. Prevention Centers are expected to play an important role in Trump's further expanding immigration strategy. During the last Trump administration, these projects were stopped and eventually recovered under President Bidan – but immigration officials continued to allow providers to work with prisoners. At this time, lawyers were expelled from detention facilities.
“The US government has continued to win the federal court in its policy and legal condition. There is no government funding to advise on elimination.” George Washington University Law School said Aram Kavur, a co -dean for education affairs.
He said the Immigration Courts were subject to the law and policy preparation of the Administrative Courts, the President and the Attorney General.
The orientation programs are operating in detention centers located in the isolated areas of the country from the cities where the immigrant lawyers and legal service programs are concentrated. In California, private run detention centers operate in McFarland and Backersfield in the Central Valley, near the border of Calexico, and at the San Bernardino County.
Michael Lucans, Managing Director of the Amiga Center, said, “When you take mass detention and carry out the appropriate process, you have a black base for advice and transparency. You have a black base.” He told reporters on Monday that the case would be filed immediately.
His staff were in the middle of the legal presentation with a group of prisoners this week, and the officers who worked regularly asked them to leave.
Lisa Knox, co -director of California cooperation for immigrant justice, said that he had heard similar stories from providers in California, where at least nine consulting children.
“For those in immigration detention, there are already enough representation and legal services,” he said. “So the loss of this project increases that gap.”
The number of cases in the Immigration Court is more than 3 million, and those with lawyers have fallen dramatically since 2018. One of every three pending before the court has lawyers. Six years ago that number was two -thirds, according to A Congressional statement.
Only prisoners who had no lawyers won 3 percent According to a 2018 study, cases.
Times staff writer Andrea Castilo contributed to this report
