Arizona taxpayers will now have to pay for lawyers for immigrants

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Kudos to my colleague Elissa Taub who pointed out something rather interesting that none of the supporters of the Arizona law have told Arizonans. Under federal immigration law, a removal proceeding is a civil proceeding and one is not entitled to a public defender or any assistance in paying for help from an immigration lawyer. However, the new Arizona law makes it a state crime to be illegally present in the state. What this means is that any person charged under the new law is entitled to a taxpayer funded public defender or taxpayer funded private lawyer. And we lawyers...

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Fantastic!!!!!!!! Pay more money to the lawyers...............what a wonderful way of using our tax money.......... This whole AZ bill stinks from top to bottom!!!!!!!!!