In a decision issued Wednesday, January 7, Attorney General Michael Mukasey declared that henceforth, immigrants, asylum seekers, and all others in removal (deportation) proceedings do not have any right under statute or the Constitution to representation by a lawyer before they can be ordered deported.
AILF severely condemns this act as undermining fundamental Constitutional principles.
“The American Immigration Law Foundation (AILF) condemns this latest and last-minute decision that is part of the Administration's ongoing strategy to not only recede due process rights, but to thwart federal court oversight of immigration courts, which have been plagued with questions about the integrity of their decisions and allegations of political cronyism.”
See Attorney General's decision is Matter of Compean, 24 I & N Dec. 710 (A.G. 2009), available at http://www.usdoj.gov/eoir/vll/intdec/vol24/3632.pdf
See AILF brief available at http://www.ailf.org/lac/chdocs/IACBrief.pdf
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