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What This Illegal Immigrant Was Just Granted Could Set A Terrible Precedent For America
As certain states seem to be competing to provide illegal immigrants with increasingly valuable benefits, it is clear that, depending on which state one chooses, it can really pay off to live in constant violation of America’s immigration laws.
Whether enjoying the amenities at a Texas facility compared to an upscale hotel or enjoying free health coverage in California, life as an illegal in America can provide plenty of incentives for those willing to take the risky journey across the border. When it comes to employment, however, some activists lament a lack of upward mobility among the tens of millions of illegals currently residing in the country.
That position became arguably less convincing this week, however, when an illegal immigrant who came to the U.S. with his family as a child learned he could pursue his dream of becoming a lawyer.
After having already passed the bar exam, Cesar Vargas received news Wednesday that a New York appeals court ruled in his favor. According to the court’s decision, there is “no legal impediment or rational basis for withholding the privilege of practicing law in the state of New York from undocumented immigrants who have been granted [Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals] relief.”
Some Breitbart readers reacted with dismay, however, over what they feel is a glaring hypocrisy within the court’s decision.
“So now you can break the law and still practice law,” one reader wrote. “Wonder how long it’ll be before they make the whole country go along with that nonsense. Life under the Leftists is becoming indistinguishable from an absurdist farce, except the fact that we’re having to live it.”
The New York decision is not the first – nor the most sweeping – state decision regarding illegal immigrants practicing law.
As Western Journalism reported last January, a California State Supreme Court decision granted one illegal immigrant the opportunity to pursue a legal career without limiting the ruling’s implications to DACA beneficiaries.
Should illegal immigrants be allowed to defend the law in court as attorneys? Share your thoughts in the comments section below.
This post originally appeared on Western Journalism – Equipping You With The Truth
Source: http://www.westernjournalism.com/what-this-illegal-immigrant-was-just-granted-could-set-a-terrible-precedent-for-america/
