Biden Admin Wants to Use Taxpayer Dollars to Provide Attorneys for Illegals, I don't think that is what our tax dollars are for... what do you think?

[gta_fan]

I don't post stuff like this but The Biden administration wants to spend millions of taxpayer dollars to pay federal lawyers to represent illegal immigrants seeking asylum in the U.S.

[normalice]

The right to an attorney is part of our law. You can argue it is a privilege for citizens, not a human right, and that probably isn't wrong by the letter of the law, but I suppose we have to decide if the spirit of the law should be one of xenophobia. I understand the far right fake news has spent about 50 years convincing people that government only helps minorities and foreigners, leaving rural or white men out out to dry, but the problem with that narrative is it is the far right politicians that have made things that way by steadily eroding the systems of government that support rural/white voters just so they can redirect the funding of them to their own offshore bank accounts. It is a scam that has been going on for decades and it works by getting people mad with the false narrative that the left is only trying to help minorities and foreigners.

The right feeds off Americans who have been dispossessed economically since the Reagan revolution that began in 1981 started the massive redistribution of wealth upward. Those disaffected people, slipping away from the secure middle-class life their parents lived, are the natural supporters of authoritarians who assure them their problems come not from the systems leaders have put in place, but rather from Black people, people of color, and feminist women. Biden appears to be trying to combat this dangerous dynamic not by trying to peel disaffected Americans away from Trump and his party by arguing against the former president, but by reducing the pressure on those who support him. A study from the Niskanen Center think tank shows that the expanded Child Tax Credit, which last month began to put up to $300 per child per month into the bank accounts of most U. S. households with children, will primarily benefit rural Americans and will give a disproportionately large relative boost to their local economies. According to the Washington Post’s Greg Sargent, “the... nine states that will gain the most per capita from the expanded child allowance are all red states.”At a Democratic National Committee fundraiser last night, Biden told attendees that Democrats “have to keep making our case,” while Republicans offer “nothing but fear, lies, and broken promises.” “We have to keep cutting through the Republican fog,” he said, “that the government isn't the problem and show that we the people are always the solution.” He continued, “We've got to demonstrate that democracies can work and protect." I only hope Republican voters give him the chance to prove he isn't just pandering to them.

[TadCurious]

This is a perfect example of what the Biden administration's priorities are. It's certainly not the best interests of the American people. The overwhelming majority of these people are economically-motivated migrants, which isn't proper grounds for asylum.

[Anonymous]

Fleeing a shitty country isn't grounds for asylum. All of these refugees should be left waiting in Mexico for years, just like Trump arranged. This moronic president we have now is just doing what he's told by China and helping to destroy the country.

It's pathetic that we have millions of homeless Americans and our idiot president is paying for lawyers for illegal people from all over the world. Biden should be impeached for what he's allowing on the border.

[NaultD]

That's apart of the constitution. The Sixth Amendment gives defendants the right to counsel in federal prosecutions. It even explicitly states dependent not citizens. So every person being convicted of a crime (even an illegal crossing of the border) needs a zealot legal consulting provided by the state.

[TadCurious]

The constitutional guarantee of right to counsel in criminal cases doesn't extend to immigration court. It would extend to the federal criminal offense of illegal entry but not to matters such as asylum claims which are the purview of the civil immigration courts. But under Biden no illegal apprehended at the border need worry about being criminally prosecuted for illegal entry.

[NaultD]

@TadCurious so that's the reality of what being a good moral government does. asylum claims are apart of international law and America has a habit of setting those standards for other countries to copy.

[Avicenna]

The Biden Administration is a crime organization with no respect for common sense laws or common sense at all.

It's a disgrace. But they're doubling down on treason they started by opening up the borders and letting rapists and other criminals, COVID-infected people, and even some terrorists into the country.

This is one of the many government programs the Democrats use to launder taxpayer money to the most rabid supporters.

[jshm2]

You're aware that's how it works around the world already, right?

The problem with the US system is that shitty halfwit lawyers are gouging asylum cases and giving little quality. Biden wants to redress the balance, to ensure proper representation and proper casework oversight. instead of the current "pay and try your luck" asylum system in the USA.

[tartaarsaus]

Good. Everyone should have access to legal aid in courts. Illegals are just as entitled to protection against the government as citizens, since the government determines on their visa applications (such as for asylum status), deportations and more.

[Feelicks]

I think he should use tax dollars to shave his hairy legs that seem to have been troubling him.

[DWornock]

It doesn't matter. They are spending trillions so what difference does a few million make?

[Nick473]

Sounds like treason. How did we get enemies inside the white house?

[Anonymous]

Biden is a brain-dead pedophile that should be impeached.

[iBeowulf]

Race to the bottom confirmed

[rcljr]

Whatev, I don’t pay state or federal taxes

[Pterodon]

It’s an outrage