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Angelo A. Paparelli, May 22, 2023
"The famous line from Shakespeare — “The first thing we do is, let’s kill all the lawyers” (Dick the Butcher, Act IV, Scene II, Henry VI, Part II) — is interpreted in widely divergent ways. My handy AI assistant offers these examples:
The line about “attorney-cide” came to me as I pondered how the federal courts and immigration agencies interact with lawyers. Although Section 292 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) provides that a noncitizen in removal proceedings shall have a right to counsel “at no expense to the Government,” and regulations of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) at 8 C.F.R. § 292.1 authorize attorneys to represent noncitizens in a variety of immigration benefits requests, federal statutes and immigration officers often plant barriers that impede effective legal representation.Consider these examples:
I offer an additional view on the “kill-all-the-lawyers” line beyond those offered by my handy AI assistant. I don’t speak for all attorneys, but my take is that by eliminating, if not killing off, immigration lawyers, federal immigration agencies get away with infringing the legal rights of noncitizens and the American businesses and families who care about them."