Legislation filed in California would extend legal services subsidized by taxpayer dollars to more illegal aliens, including those convicted of violent crimes.
The bill filed by California Democratic Assemblymember Reggie Jones-Sawyer would expand current law to provide additional “immigration-related legal services” through grants received by nonprofit groups. The present version of the bill would strike language in the current law such that individuals who have been found guilty of violent offenses can receive assistance.
“Existing law prohibits use of the grant funds to provide legal services to an individual who has been convicted of, or who is currently appealing a conviction for, a violent or serious felony,” the summary of the legislation reads. “This bill would remove that prohibition.”
The current law, which allows grant funding for “immigration remedies and naturalization” for those presently or formerly residing in California, would be expanded to assist those “having an intent to reside in and having a nexus to the state” and would increase “the scope of services to include, among other things, legal representation and related services for removal defense.”
Controversy over the bill, which was introduced last month, comes as immigration emerges as a central issue ahead of the fall elections. Various crimes committed by illegal aliens, such as the abduction and murder of Georgia nursing student Laken Riley by an illegal alien from Venezuela, have also drawn renewed criticism of border policy under the Biden administration.
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