Immigration
Jan. 7, 2017
Immigrant defense funds may extend to private bar. Nonprofits can't do it alone, donors say.
Requests for proposals will be issued in several months to augment the corps of attorneys doing deportation defense.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
Private immigration attorneys may soon be eligible to receive funds for deportation defense under a new state bill and several local initiatives aimed at combating an expected ramp-up in federal removal proceedings in 2017.
While experts anticipate the lion's share of the money going to established legal nonprofits, language in the proposed bill and a Los Angeles fund currently would autho...
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