A number of non -profit companies that provide basic legal information to detained immigrants have sued the Trump administration for stopping their plans and locked from detention facilities.
DC-based group, which represents children and providing those basic services A case In the US district court for Columbia district, he asks a judge to change the administration's stop. The judiciary did not respond to the request for the comment.
This attempt is part of President Trump's vast motivation to reduce the resources available to the detained immigrants, and he is trying to expand his detention capacity. This week, Trump, who turned the “deportation of the Mass” into the center of his campaign, announced plans to open 30,000 beds in Quadanamo BayCuba, “Bad Criminal Foreigners”.
Million 28 million legal service programs offer a help desk busy Immigration Court rooms The basic law information for individuals and families in detention facilities in 12 states, including Los Angeles, San Francisco and San Diego, is called “legal orientation program” and some may be separated from their families.
The group's lawyers have already acquired funds and suddenly suspension of the scheme is “emergency and sack attack on the immigration system,” which accepts the information needed to obtain the procedure that is constitutionally guaranteed.
Is non -profit national Acacia Center for JusticeA few days after Trump's swearing -in, it was announced in the Email of the Justice Department, “immediately stop work”, to coordinate plans by 18 different non -profit companies. The email quoted that Trump's latest administrative order was attributed to. 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.
This case is part of a big bushbecker as groups are trying to reduce Trump's more expansive immigration policy. Birth Citizenship has been challenged in the federal court and is Temporarily blocked. A Communication Group in Chicago Last week, the management targets the city with plans for running roundabs due to its sanctuary. Groups across the country have created “know your rights” campaigns Quick Response networks In communities.
Unlike criminal courts, citizens cannot access free advice, but a lawyer has the right to represent them.
In this case, the case argues that the Immigration Review of the Immigration Review, which runs the Immigration Court, has taken steps to carry out non -profit orientation programs and reduce the time of the immigrants being detained at the expense of taxpayers.
The office's decision under the new administration of the projects “waste”. . It loads any support or credibility, ”the case argues.
Lawyers say that stopping plans – even though it is temporary during an audit – may be a “dangerous blow” for non -profit companies that depend on federal funds to provide this service.
During the last Trump administration, the fee for law plans was suspended, but immigration officials allowed the providers to work with the prisoners. Plans were restored amid legal threats. This method suggests that they are not allowed in prevention centers and their posters have been removed.
Groups argue that the immigration authorities reduce the rights of speech in a limited public forum by pulling and reducing access to information and reducing access to information.
“Everyone should have a chance for the appropriate process and a fair trial. All the doj has done a prison that has done all the transparency or accountability, and it is very terrible to prevent people from helping non -profit companies,” said Michael Lucans, Managing Director of Amika.
