So most illegal immigrants are arrested (and deported) not for being in the country illegally, but for other reasons:
The question we should ask the right-wing echo chamber is how those people knowingly committed a crime (and how they should therefore be considered criminals).
Note: I am also acquainted with one of those immigration attorneys. Typically, the pay is shit, the work rarely rewarding, if not outright depressing.
[Professor Camayd-Freixas] suggested many of the immigrants could not have knowingly committed the crimes in their pleas. "Most of the clients we interviewed did not even know what a Social Security card was or what purpose it served," he wrote.
He said many immigrants could not distinguish between a Social Security card and a residence visa, known as a green card. They said they had purchased fake documents from smugglers in Postville, or obtained them directly from supervisors at the Agriprocessors plant. Most did not know that the original cards could belong to Americans and legal immigrants, Mr. Camayd-Freixas said.
The question we should ask the right-wing echo chamber is how those people knowingly committed a crime (and how they should therefore be considered criminals).
(via TruthOut)
Note: I am also acquainted with one of those immigration attorneys. Typically, the pay is shit, the work rarely rewarding, if not outright depressing.
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