Immigrants Need Protection ... From Their Lawyers

Published August 22, 2009 @ 08:59PM PT

Check out my guest post today over at Nezua's place about notarios, scamming of immigrant families, and long overdue regulation of immigration attorneys.

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I am glad you posted the list of lawyers that are being suspended. It is wise to do research before trusting a lawyer to do your work and we are lucky to have you to expose information here for us. There are great lawyers out there and it is Assam that the good have to take the heat "that stereotype" for the bad ones...just like doctors, politicians and all professions...there will always be the good and the bad. Gotta love the Internet! Blogs with information can be our best friend.

Posted by Mary Pranzatelli on 08/23/2009 @ 02:10PM PT
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Ouch! TYPO error!.."Assam"..I meant to say "it is a shame".

Posted by Mary Pranzatelli on 08/23/2009 @ 02:12PM PT
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My husband, from Australia, is now being held in Federal Detention to be deported back next week..WHY? because two paid immigration lawyers gave us the same advice that led to his detainment. So we suffer at their lack of wisdom... At the ages of 55 with a ten year ban...we'll be 65!

Posted by C. Chant on 08/23/2009 @ 02:47PM PT
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I am just curious C. Chant? What advice did they give you that caused him to be held in Detention? Did they have you file a paper that caused this?

Posted by Mary Pranzatelli on 08/23/2009 @ 06:00PM PT
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They informed us that my husband would be receiving a notice from DHS for removal and we could at that time appeal and submit the *missing* document DHS required, when in fact according to *immigration* laws, no paper was ever going to arrive.

Posted by C. Chant on 08/26/2009 @ 04:09AM PT
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Correct me if I am wrong? So what I am assuming is that you paid the Attorneys and they submitted paper work to the DHS and those papers made the DHS aware of status and they had ICE pick him up and detain him....and either these attorneys were money hungry or they just didn't know what they were doing. That 10 year bar is ridiculous. Lets hope they change that 10 year bar and pass the Family Re-United Act C. Chant.

Posted by Mary Pranzatelli on 08/26/2009 @ 08:07PM PT
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running my odd campaign over at the gay rights side of the blog today and fiddling with the web site

http://www.steinforgovernor.com/Donations.html

Posted by Gary Stein on 08/24/2009 @ 01:54PM PT
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catching up on my reading, and now I've read the post. It figures- crooked lawyers, lazy bureaucrats. Worse is uninformed voters. We need to work together, that's the reason detre (????) of this blog. If we can get somebody from being deported why cant we all bug the New York Times to send a reporter down to Mexico with me.

Talked to Beto tonight. Probably on his way back right now to his half finished house he has to guard at night. Made the call from the house where his brothers live. Looks like his brother did nail that teaching job, only cost the family one plot of land as a bribe. Said they'd all pool their money if I could find his brother a car (thinking around a 1992- and a convertable for the soccer player-teacher.) They would pool the money too, and Beto and I would know the ropes this time when he met me in Matamoris. No more

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbHfYYYRFUc&feature=related

could somebody translate that for me? I don't speak Spanish too well.

Posted by Gary Stein on 08/24/2009 @ 07:19PM PT
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