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Colorado nonprofit offering immigrant legal aid ordered to stop work by feds (coloradosun.com)

submitted 1 day ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20250130123606/https://coloradosun.com/2025/01/28/immigrant-legal-services-stop-work-order/

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 day ago (1 children)

FTA:

The stop work order from the federal justice department was received last week by advocacy groups that receive federal funding, including Acacia Center for Justice, which supports Colorado’s network. Colorado advocates announced Monday evening that the order means it must suspend operations inside the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in Aurora and the immigration courthouse in downtown Denver.

It's still not a good thing, but it carries a different meaning than the headline implies. This is closer to firing the agency on your payroll, rather than blocking the efforts of an independent agency.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

I think the problem here is less the funding and more about potential client access

More than 85% of immigrants in Colorado fighting deportation and trying to prove their case for asylum or other legal ways to stay in the United States have no attorney. Many of those visit the advocacy network’s help desks and “Know Your Rights” presentations in the courthouse and detention center before they go into court to face an immigration judge.

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The order cuts off funding for “Know Your Rights” programs, which is how advocacy groups across the country screen cases for potential attorney representation, RMIAN director of advocacy Laura Lunn told The Sun on Tuesday. While the network’s 41 employees can pivot to other work, “without this initial touchpoint, it will be very challenging” to identify people who are detained who need legal support, she said.

This article doesn't make it super clear if RMIAN attorneys were ever actually turned away from the detention center or if they didn't bother trying to go back, but attorneys at a similar organization in DC were turned away after this order came down (archived)

“Our staff were in the detention center because we would continue doing this without getting paid, because that's our mission,” he said. “Our staff were told to leave, that we could not even go into a detention center and tell people what's happening and give them an ability to figure out what's going on their case and find an attorney. And this is going to just destroy due process in the system.”

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I think if the RMIAN attorneys tried to do another rights clinic at the detention center in Denver they'd be turned away too

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago

Only barely related, but another stupid law and a stupid court case from recent history is another good example of the US attacking the ability of legal counsel to do important work that this reminds me of, Holder v Humanitarian Law project (discussed by 5 4) (archived)

This case was brought by the law project to preemptively challenge a law that would make it illegal to provide material support or resources to groups that the US Government classifies as terrorist organizations. Sounds reasonable enough, but look a little closer and...

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0:00:39.7 Speaker 1: They've written the law so broadly that it criminalizes pure speech, the core of what the First Amendment is designed to protect.

0:00:40.6 Leon: The result of the law is that lawyers cannot provide representation to organizations on the government's terrorism list, even when the lawyer's work is meant to push the groups towards more peaceful and legal solutions.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This could still be funded privately. Not as easily, but still possible. Then figure out the legality of these fucking executive orders.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

We can't get enough people to vote for someone besides BoBo.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

yeahhh that's not a legal request for ICE to send them

Straight to court