'Deportation Defense' is Big Business

The leftist lottery winner here is the Brooklyn, New York-based Vera Institute of Justice, which focuses on keeping illegals at large, including those who fail to appear for immigration hearings.

Vera hands out grants to local governments to keep illegals out of detention.

Under Stone's novel legal theory, perhaps all the farming lands despoiled by illegals streaming across the southern border could sue green groups and Vera for damages.

"Because very few can afford to hire a lawyer, most immigrants face deportation proceedings alone and without any legal defense," Vera says, omitting the fact that unauthorized "Immigrants" shouldn't be here in the first place.

Vera is a pioneer in the field of the "Deportation defense program," in which legal representation is provided to a non-citizen, generally an illegal alien, in deportation proceedings, typically at little or no cost to the client.

The deportation defense movement grew out of the sanctuary city movement, which gave illegal aliens permission to rob, rape, and murder Americans by, among other things, stigmatizing immigration enforcement with emotive slogans like "Nobody is illegal."

With the regime's enthusiasm for illegal aliens and its desire to put their interests above those of Americans, the billion-dollar DOI grant to the Vera Institute of Justice, which does not include the $468 million it received from HHS, is just the beginning.

1. With the regime’s enthusiasm for illegal aliens and its desire to put their interests above those of Americans, the billion-dollar DOI grant to the Vera Institute of Justice, which does not include the $468 million it received from HHS, is just the beginning.
2. “Because very few can afford to hire a lawyer, most immigrants face deportation proceedings alone and without any legal defense,” Vera says, omitting the fact that unauthorized “immigrants” shouldn’t be here in the first place.
3. The nearly $1 billion figure for DOI grants is also separate from the $310 million the Obama-era HHS gave the Vera Institute in 2015 and 2016 to legally represent UACs, an investigation by the Immigration Reform Law Institute discovered.
4. As I previously wrote, Vera was founded in 1961 by philanthropist Louis Schweitzer and magazine editor Herbert Sturz, who supposedly “recognized the injustice of a bail system in New York City that locked people up simply for being poor.” Schweitzer died in 1971.
5. A few weeks after he was installed as president, Joe Biden ordered the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agencies to drop the perfectly good legal term “illegal aliens” because leftists consider it offensive.
6. The leftist lottery winner here is the Brooklyn, New York-based Vera Institute of Justice, which focuses on keeping illegals at large, including those who fail to appear for immigration hearings.
7. Vera signed a $171.7 million contract with the Department of the Interior (DOI) with a start date of March 30 to help unaccompanied minors stay in the country, Fox News reported July 14.
8. A deranged legal theorist, Stone kickstarted the environmentalist movement by arguing that trees and bodies of water should have legal rights, which made him a perfect fit with the more-money-than-brains crowd at Soros’s OSF, which of course, has given plenty of grants to Vera over the years.
9. Vera is a pioneer in the field of the “deportation defense program,” in which legal representation is provided to a non-citizen, generally an illegal alien, in deportation proceedings, typically at little or no cost to the client.
10. Under Stone’s novel legal theory, perhaps all the farming lands despoiled by illegals streaming across the southern border could sue green groups and Vera for damages.
11. Vera also supports the creation of a taxpayer-funded federal defender service to provide legal representation to everyone in immigration proceedings who can’t afford a lawyer.
12. As extremist Biden-Harris policies continue to swamp America with illegal aliens, the regime, which has already lavished millions of dollars on a radical George Soros-funded group, may give the so-called social justice outfit another billion taxpayer dollars to prevent illegal aliens from being deported.
13. Stone, who also died in 2021, was OSF president from 2011 to 2017 and president of the Vera Institute from 1994 to 2004.
14. Vera used Twitter in 2019 to urge people to attend a protest alongside Velazquez at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, a federal lockup.

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