October 16, 2009 NOTE: PLEASE say if you DON'T want your name and/or email address published when sending VDARE email. A Washington D.C. Lawyer Says Even If Peter Brimelow Were King, Immigration Attorneys Would Be Necessary; James Fulford Replies
From:
William Chip (e-mail
him)
Re:
Today’s Letter:
An Immigration Lawyer Is Appalled At The Idea Of
More Immigration Lawyers
I don't get
what point letter writer Barrister Bricolage is trying
to make.
Even if
Peter
Brimelow
were king, there would be at least some immigrants, and
they would need
lawyers
to navigate the rules.
Once the
government has decided the number of immigrants, even if
we agree that there are
too many,
on what basis does one complain about
training lawyers
to represent them?
Chip has worked in immigration law for many years. His
previous letter about how to correctly define an
“immigrant”
is here.
James
Fulford writes:
While I see Mr. Chip's point that the profession of
advocate is useful, necessary, and sometimes even noble,
the modern day immigration bar is part of what we call
the
Treason Lobby.
Defense lawyers don’t usually
actually
approve of crime, or
try to make crime legal.
It
may seem that, on pure principles of advocacy, a trained
immigration lawyer can either prosecute or defend, and a
given number of graduates in immigration law might mean
additional prosecutors. But that turns out not to be the
case. One government whistleblower
wrote to Juan Mann that
"[A]fter the reorganization of departments and the
consolidation of INS [Immigration and Naturalization
Service] into DHS, ICE
no longer hires graduating law students,
as DOJ entities do.
“My understanding is that, in order to be hired as an
attorney for ICE nowadays, one must have several years
experience in
immigration litigation.
And since the only private-sector immigration litigation
experience is working
for immigration defense,
what kind of attorneys
will ICE be
able to hire?
“It won't be prosecutorial-minded ones."
So, while admitting Chip's basic point, (if a
liberal who's been mugged may rethink crime, a
conservative who's been
indicted may rethink defense lawyers) we do have
good reason to complain about an immigration bar whose
motto seems to be
"It's not over until the alien wins." |
