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Deep State Saboteurs In EOIR Immigration “Courts” Can't Even Keep Out Illegal Alien LAWYERS
The Deep State is real, especially with regards to illegal aliens and immigration law enforcement. While the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is charged with the investigation and arrest of illegal aliens, other Federal agencies have a role. One of the roles of the Department of Justice (DOJ) is the criminal prosecution of illegal aliens and the defense of actions by DHS in the enforcement of immigration laws.
The other responsibility of the DOJ in immigration enforcement is the administration of the so-called immigration courts, really the Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR).
The EOIR provides administrative hearings for certain classes of aliens in removal proceedings or other administrative action, such as recission of legal permanent residency or fraudulently obtained citizenship documents. DOJ employees, including EOIR employees, take an oath of office to see that the laws of the United States are faithfully executed. Among the responsibilities of a Federal employee, including an employee of the EOIR is to report Federal crimes that come to their attention.
But many in the bureaucracy think themselves above the law, mostly because of Orange Man Bad; they are the Resistance, the Deep State, the saboteurs. And in immigration law administration at the EOIR they think they are real Federal judges, rather than administrative employees like any other Federal employee. And these Deep State saboteurs are quite open for their contempt for President Trump and his immigration enforcement policy, so contemptuous that they are openly working with an illegal alien in their courts.
This is not an illegal alien brought before the court, but an illegal who represents other illegal aliens as an attorney. Now, no one can serve as an attorney or be a member of the State Bar if they are an ongoing crimina (it is an ethical violation) nor are they eligible to represent an alien before the EOIR, as their status is inherently in conflict with the very laws at issue.
But that is all fine with the EOIR office in Los Angeles, they routinely allow an illegal alien into their courts, also a violation of law, as no one may enter Federal property without legal identification, and this illegal alien, Lizbeth Mateo, does not have valid identification under the Real ID Act, which is required to enter a Federal facility.
On Friday morning, attorney Lizbeth Mateo went to immigration court in downtown Los Angeles to represent a client with whom she has something in common.
She’s undocumented, too.Mateo wore a navy blue suit, carried a binder stuffed with court records and announced herself to the immigration judge conducting a hearing. She has no more protection from arrest and deportation than any of her clients, but that’s not something she thinks about on the job…Mateo says her own status does not come up in court, and she’s never sure whether judges or other lawyers know that the polished, savvy 34-year-old woman advocating on behalf of her clients does not have legal status herself.“I’m a walking contradiction,” Mateo had told me a day earlier in her Wilmington law office.[This Immigration Attorney Understands Her Clients. She’s Undocumented, Too, by Steve Lopez, LAT, January 11, 2020]
Now, the idea that the court employees do not know about her status is a lie. She would have to reveal that status to represent clients in immigration court as that would be a material fact. And she has long been a public illegal alien, so most likely, everyone knows.
In 2013, Mateo and eight other activists — they were known as the Dream 9 — made headlines by traveling south of the border and then coming back north to protest immigration policy and 9 million deportations during the Obama administration.
Some immigration reform activists cheered, while others feared the tactic could sabotage the chances of reform. Mateo and the others were arrested and Mateo was locked up for two weeks before being released back into the U.S.
Another question is what is up with her status? She has been arrested when she re-entered, is she in removal proceedings? Is she a fugitive from removal? Was she paroled and has the parole lapsed? Is she still in parole status, if so, why? Is ICE SVU just ignoring her? Has she won the Obama Regime Administrative Amnesty from ICE SVU?
But more importantly, she physically cannot enter a Federal building or office without identification under the REAL ID Act. At every EOIR office there are guards there, either Federal Protective Service (FPS) Officers or contract guards that are required to check identification. While illegal alien defendants do not need that identification, all others do, including counsel for illegal alien defendants.
Here we have the FPS not doing their job, or, more likely, the Chief Immigration Judge has ordered guards to allow Mateo entry. I think this is most likely.
But in any event, why is Rodin Rooyani, Assistant Chief Immigration Judge, EOIR, Los Angeles, after this very public and voluntary outing of Mateo as an illegal alien, allowing Mateo to appear in court and not ordered her arrest?
You can reach Rooyani here:
606 S. Olive Street, 15th Floor
Los Angeles, CA 90014(213) 894-2811
You can also report misconduct by the FPS security staff for allowing an illegal alien without proper REAL ID compliant identification into a Federal facility here:
Regional DirectorPacific Rim Region IX450 Golden Gate BoulevardSan Francisco, CA 941021-877-4FPS-411
You can also report Mateo to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement here:
(866) 347-2423SAC Los Angeles
300 N. Los Angeles Street, Room 6075
Los Angeles, CA, 90012
Phone: (213) 830-5599ICE Enforcement and Removal OperationsLos Angeles Field Office
300 North Los Angeles St. Room 7631
Los Angeles, CA, 90012
Phone: (213) 830-7911
You can report Rooyani here to the Department of Justice Office of Inspector General (DOJ OIG) for aiding an illegal alien.
U.S. Department of Justice
Office of the Inspector General
Los Angeles Field Office
330 North Brand Blvd., Suite 1000
Glendale, CA 91203Phone: (818) 863-1901Fax: (818) 863-1919
Let us see what the EOIR, FPS, DOJ OIG, and ICE do about this illegal alien. This is blatant insubordination and typical Deep State defiance of the President. Please, Stephen Miller, do something! Please, Ken The Knife, do something!
California Appoints Illegal Alien to State Office
California
has its first illegal alien in state office, after Senate President pro Tem
Kevin de León (D-Los Angeles) appointed Lizbeth Mateo to the
California Student Opportunity and Access Program Project Grant Advisory
Committee.
Mateo, an
attorney, was born in Mexico and came to the U.S. illegally at the age of 14
with her parents, who are also illegal aliens, according to the Sacramento
Bee.
In #lawschool I often wondered if I
was fit to b in #lawjournal, #mootcourt bc not many ppl w/ my
same background did. I always went for it bc even if I felt inadequate I
thought I could add something of value. I hope to do the same w/
@StudentAidCommission. #undocumentedunafraid https://twitter.com/AraceliMartinez/status/974076293850447872 …
Thank you Sen. @kdeleon for appointing me to the
CalSOAP Advisory Committee. I look forward to working w/ the rest of the
committee & the Student Aid Commission in such important task - increase
the accessibility of postsecondary education opportunities for low-income
students.
She complained that illegal aliens are not adequately
represented in state government, and described her appointment as a step
towards correcting that alleged injustice.
“While
undocumented students have become more visible in our state, they remain
underrepresented in places where decisions that affect them are being made,”
Mateo said, as quoted by Fox News.
De León, who is running for U.S. Senate against incumbent Sen.
Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), described Mateo as: “a courageous, determined and
intelligent young woman who at great personal risk has dedicated herself to
fight for those seeking their rightful place in this country,” according to Fox
News.
Mateo, however, seems somewhat confused about which country she
prefers.
In
a Facebook post in 2016, apparently
celebrating her graduation from Santa Clara University School of Law, Mateo
declared, in Spanish: “[E]verything is dedicated to Oaxaca, Mexico!! to that
land that I miss so much.”
Lizbeth Mateo (Facebook)
While she is
the first illegal alien to hold a state office, she is not the first elevated
to public office in California. In 2015, the city council of Huntington Park,
California, appointed two illegal aliens to
city commissions, sparking a public backlash.
De León and other state officials are stoking an ongoing
confrontation with the federal government over federal immigration laws.
Joel
B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News. He was named to Forward’s 50 “most
influential” Jews in 2017. He is the co-author of How
Trump Won: The Inside Story of a Revolution, which is available from
Regnery. Follow him on Twitter at @joelpollak.
New York, California Moving to Permit
Illegal Aliens to Practice Law?
Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr., delivers remarks following
President Barack Obama's statement announcing Holder's departure, in the State
Dining Room of the White House, Sept. 25, 2014. Attorney General Holder will
remain at the Department of Justice until his post is filled. (Official White
House Photo by Chuck Kennedy)
Sapna Rampersaud has
written an article for National Review Online's The Corner titled "Illegal Immigrants Can Now Defend the Laws They
Break,"detailing how the states of New York and California have moved
to permit illegal aliens to practice law. This is the kind of thing one might
expect to see as a headline on the satirical website The Onion, but, sadly,
it's true.
Actually, they've been
headed that way for some time. John Feere, previously a legal policy analyst
here at the Center, wrote about California's efforts clear back in
January of 2014, and commented on the back flips achieved by the California
Supreme Court in deciding that permitting illegal aliens to practice law was
copacetic:
“[N]ew lawyers must
take an oath to ‘support the Constitution of the United States" and must
also pass an ethics exam. The California Supreme Court explained in its holding
that it "assumes’ that a licensed illegal alien ‘will make all necessary
inquiries and take appropriate steps to comply with applicable legal
restrictions.’ The Committee of Bar Examiners explained that ‘there is no
reason to believe’ Garcia [the illegal alien applicant seeking approval to
practice law] ‘cannot take the oath and faithfully uphold his duties as an
attorney.’
“It is unclear why the
court and the bar examiners would assume such things. Illegal immigrants
regularly fail to comply with a whole host of laws. Within Garcia's own circle
of family and friends one can identify a variety of potential legal violations,
if media reports are accurate.
“Garcia admits to
working a number of jobs prior to law school, and depending on how he obtained
the work, he may be liable under False Personation of a U.S. Citizen (18 U.S.C.
§ 911), Fraud and False Statements (18 U.S.C. § 1001), and Social Security
Fraud (42 U.S.C. § 408), just to name a few examples. We estimate that nearly
half of working illegal aliens have filled out I-9 Forms and are likely in
violation of these statutes. If the Obama administration decided to enforce
federal immigration law, Garcia could potentially face many years in jail and
significant fines. It is important to remember that these crimes often create
real victims.”
In addition to Feere's
very cogent observations, I'm also wondering how, exactly, an attorney who is
illegally in the United States can be deemed an "officer of the court." Aren't the two
things, when put together, inherently oxymoronic? An alien who has no lawful
status must inevitably engage in deception and subterfuge in order to remain in
the United States without being apprehended. That doesn't sound like the kind
of upright behavior required of officers of the court.
Moving back to the article on The Corner,
Rampersaud has her own version of the "Mr. Garcia" described above:
“One such lawyer is
Lizbeth Mateo. Born in Mexico, Mateo and her family illegally crossed the
border when she was 14 and have been residing in California ever since. In
2013, Mateo returned to Mexico knowing she had no legal visa to come back and,
as part of what became known as the Bring Them Home Campaign, returned to the
U.S. border with eight other children and demanded unauthorized reentry into
the U.S. — which she was granted. Having graduated from Santa Clara University
School of Law and working jobs that required the use of a stolen Social
Security number, Mateo now spends her time as an immigration lawyer ‘preparing
legal strategies to help undocumented immigrants stay in the country’ — all
while flaunting her own undocumented status.”
“This example
illustrates the extent to which certain states both accept and encourage
illegal immigration. Mateo is praised for being a ‘leader’ and a ‘bold advocate’
but should instead be described as what she is: a lawbreaker. Mateo has taken
an oath of office to uphold the Constitution, but breaks federal law every day.
Square that circle.”
She's right. You can't
square that circle. But one thing I can say for certain is this: It takes more
than just a state license to practice immigration law because, of course,
immigration laws are federal in nature. Attorneys who wish to represent aliens
before the Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR), the Justice Department
division that handles the immigration courts and Board of Immigration Appeals,
must register with and be approved by the EOIR director.
While I don't see any
particular prohibition of illegal aliens in the provision of the federal
regulations governing such registration, at 8 CFR Section 1292.1, it would defy
logic and make a mockery of the immigration courts for the director to approve
such an application for registration.
There is also the
issue of fairness to the illegal alien being represented by another illegal
alien: What happens if his lawyer is arrested before his hearing is completed,
thus leaving him high and dry? For EOIR to permit such a situation to occur
would be tantamount to malfeasance. On the other hand, it defies logic that
certain states have already taken that step-too-far, and that, too, seems to me
to smack of malfeasance.
Maybe it's time that
Attorney General Jeff Sessions steps in to require his new EOIR director to
amend the regulation and make the prohibition against illegal alien lawyers
representing other illegal aliens in the immigration courts crystal clear.
Meantime, if an
illegal alien attorney shows up in court to represent an alien respondent in
removal proceedings, perhaps the presiding immigration judge will have the good
sense to summon immigration agents to arrest the attorney and place him or her
into proceedings as well. After all, they're fair game. Being a lawyer
shouldn't intrinsically place anyone above the law, should it?
Dan Cadman is a
retired INS / ICE official with thirty years of government experience. Mr.
Cadman served as a senior supervisor and manager at headquarters, as well as at
field offices both domestically and abroad.
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