Feb. 18, 2025 - Dennis Prager Show
03:45
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| Here's a quote from the director of the Executive Office for Immigration Review, which oversees the immigration courts. | |
| No, I never heard of it either. | |
| So the EOIR continued to seek additional funding for legal orientation programs and repeatedly failed to disclose to the Department of Justice or to Congress that it knew that the general LOP was not an effective or economical program. | |
| All right. | |
| This according to a person by the name of Search E. Owen, who took over at the Immigration Review Office when Trump took office. | |
| All right. | |
| She said hiding the study was, quote, inappropriate and significantly undermined the Executive Office for Immigration Reviews' credibility and integrity. | |
| So the Legal Orientation Program's annual budget, again, $28 million, not $128 million, but that's what they took. | |
| And then they asked for more money. | |
| NGOs were getting paid by this organization. | |
| I'm sure you guessed that. | |
| The Legal Orientation Program is one of several assistance programs that government funds for illegal aliens that are facing deportation. | |
| Oh, my God. | |
| It pays NGOs to provide refreshers on their rights. | |
| Now, I don't know how the hell illegal aliens have rights inside of the United States of America, but the good news is you're paying for them to find out. | |
| Such as avenues of defense or how to request release from ICE detention, but the help didn't affect the outcomes of the cases. | |
| So even though we spent $128 million on defending illegal aliens to try to help them stay in the country, it didn't matter. | |
| None of the stats changed. | |
| Let me give you some stats. | |
| A 2018 study found that 76% of those in the Legal Orientation Program, LOP, I'll call it from now on, All right, were ordered to be deported nearly the same rate as the 78% of removal orders for those who weren't in the program. | |
| Roughly 10% of those in the legal orientation program won their cases or had them closed without a deportation order, similarly to the 9% rate for those not participating. | |
| Ms. Owens said the 2021 study reaffirmed the 28... | |
| 2018 reports data and added to it, it concluded that, quote, those who were part of the legal orientation program were detained at a higher rate and stayed in custody far longer than those who did not. | |
| Here's another stat. | |
| In 2017, the average legal, the LOP migrant or illegal who was detained stayed in custody for 155 days compared to 104 days for the illegal not in the program. | |
| So the bottom line is we spend more money. | |
| Money to defend illegals that want to stay in the country. | |
| And we get the same result of illegals that are going about it their own way and trying to stay in the country. | |
| But we spend more because we keep them housed longer. | |
| And we pay for their funding. | |
| We pay for their legal fees. | |
| It doesn't change the stats whatsoever. | |
| But this is some of the money. | |
| What's happening here? |
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