Public defenders who handle criminal cases will not take on deportation cases. Instead, those cases will be taken up by immigration attorneys hired under the Cook County public defender office’s immigration unit, which opened last year.
Immigration was a federal, centralized issue, but now, Pritzger wants a state apparatus to take over the task state by state? This seems at odds with the neoliberal model of centralized power. Politicians know that most voters are willfully uninformed and over-opinionated. Our leaders do not believe in laws or rules that do not suit their agenda.
Immigration was a federal, centralized issue, but now, Pritzger wants a state apparatus to take over the task state by state? This seems at odds with the neoliberal model of centralized power. Politicians know that most voters are willfully uninformed and over-opinionated. Our leaders do not believe in laws or rules that do not suit their agenda.