Adi Talwar
The line outside 26 Federal Plaza one morning in 2015. The building is one of two locations in the city where immigration hearings are held.
“Actualmente no existe el derecho a la defensa pública en los procedimientos de inmigración, pero contar con un abogado para navegar por este sistema notoriamente complicado hace avanzar la causa de la justicia”.
“There is currently no right to public defense in immigration proceedings, but having a lawyer to navigate this notoriously complicated system advances the cause of justice.”
Until prosecutors stop viewing the enforcement of these crimes as optional and start investigating them like other crimes, unscrupulous companies will continue to incorporate fraud into their business model.
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