Immigrant Workers involved in a raid get right to legal counsel.

As in many places around America, legal and illegal immigrants have become an essential part of the overall economy of the USA. Their contribution to the overall US businesses health, bringing benefits to individual American consumers, because they work for rather low wages is substantial. Under our legal system you would think that they do, regardless of their citizenship or immigration status have the right to legal counsel.

There are two problems. First, many immigrant workers have little knowledge about their rights to representation and local and federal agencies may take advantage of that situation. Second, there are few specialized advocates they can turn to for help to have their rights protected or recover their earnings. But help from anywhere in the USA or abroad is available by contacting the immigration layers at Maturano Law. They have experience the world over in naturalization, immigration, visa application, deportation; adjusting status procedures as well know the ins and outs of the labor department procedures.

Here is a typical example where lawyers stepped in to protect immigrants to have their rights protected. The result is that a settlement between civil rights groups and federal officials was finally reached. This settlement allows (maybe illegal or undocumented) immigrant worker seized to be accompanied by an attorney at all encounters, meetings and interrogations.

The question is, will the settlement with federal officials guaranteeing that immigrant workers nabbed in an immigration raids all over be afforded the same rights? And is this going to set precedent for other cases? For more information check Maturano Law to see if this decision applies to you!

The just last week reached settlement was attained due to the intervention of the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California, the National Lawyers guild and the National Immigration Law Center.

The Federal Agencies involved claim that: "It should be emphasized that ICE conducts work site enforcement operations lawfully, professionally and with extreme consideration to humanitarian concerns,” They also claim that the agency advises arrested immigrants of "their right to legal counsel and communication with consular officers by telephone or in person, after initial processing is completed."

The organizations seeking the restraining order contended that the workers had a right to have an attorney present in those initial interviews, as well as any others.

A spokesmen of the ACLU lawyers said the groups hoped that this California, USA case would set a legal precedent. He added: "The government would have a hard time explaining why the rights of these people are different from those of others" detained immigrant workers in similar raids, he said.