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Work inside a small DOJ office that helps indigent immigrants get legal aid stalls after personnel shuffle

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The Justice Department program that accredits nonprofit organizations to help provide legal aid to low-income immigrants has failed to approve a single new application since March— after its attorneys were quietly reassigned to other offices, sources with direct knowledge of the program told CBS News. A month ago, the small group of senior attorneys who … Read more

DOJ guts office that helps indigent immigrants obtain affordable legal aid, sources say

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The Justice Department has quietly gutted a more than 60-year-old program created to ensure that low-income and indigent immigrants can receive competent and affordable legal representation, multiple sources with direct knowledge of the matter tell CBS News. The Recognition and Accreditation program, which is part of the Justice Department’s Executive Office for Immigration Review, accredits … Read more