Dems learned nothing from the Harry Reid mistake about setting precedents. They broke the glass and now they’ve got to face the consequences.
Part of the left’s broader strategy about creating permanent one-party rule was flooding the country with illegal aliens passing themselves as ‘refugees’ (so they could stay) rather than economic opportunists (who, by law, are NOT permitted to stay). In order to claim ‘asylum’ you have to want something more than an economic upgrade, you have to be in some sort of danger.
There was a concerted effort by Cartels, NGOs, the activist left and God alone knows how many other parties in greasing the skids for caravans of people from parts unknown to come to America with all the right answers to the questions that would fast-track someone to the asylum process, with zero regard for who actually was running from actual danger.
As you might imagine, iterating that process over millions of cases of bogus asylum seekers flooding in during the Biden years generates a metric carton of legal filings that will need to be filled and filed in their proper contexts. That creates an immediate cash cow for the armies of lawyers translating these opportunities into billable hours. (Presumably funded by some combination of taxpayers and NGOs, if you’ll pardon the redundancy).
But that creates both a paper trail and a potential problem for the lawyer.
Remember how lawyers who jumped in to give legal defense to the various spurious cases ginned up against defendants of either Trumpworld or J6? Or how about those who gave legal counsel in the various legal challenges brought up against the 2020 results, using due process? Some were charged, others faced disbarment, others still were ‘merely’ blacklisted for DARING to attend to the RIGHT to an attorney.
If they were harassed and charged with NO legal predicate, do you suppose we should be expected to look the other way in examples where lawyers are openly profiteering from bogus asylum claims designed to subvert national sovereignty?
The Department of Homeland Security’s top lawyer on Tuesday directed Immigration and Customs Enforcement attorneys to aggressively pursue administrative fraud cases against immigration lawyers accused of filing false asylum claims, the latest step in the administration’s push to speed up removals, expand enforcement and challenge the legal infrastructure around immigration.
In a memo dated May 26 and obtained by CBS News, DHS General Counsel James Percival instructed ICE attorneys within the Office of the Principal Legal Advisor to develop “anti-fraud policies” designed for “robust enforcement” of existing federal anti-fraud law. The memo said that any effort “should include enforcement against immigration attorneys filing false asylum claims in immigration court.”
While the directive does not create new penalties, it signals thatICE lawyers will begin to use existing administrative enforcement toolsmore frequentlyto crack downnot only against migrants accused of submitting fraudulent applications, but also againstthe lawyers who represent them.
Source: Clash Daily
