Criminal Defense of Immigrants
§ 2.1 I. Introduction: 3 Reasons to Protect Our Clients' Immigration Status
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There are three primary reasons for us, as criminal lawyers, to protect our clients’ immigration status as we handle their cases:
(1) It is in our clients’ interest for us to do so.
(2) If we don’t do it in criminal court, very often no one can, and it’s difficult or impossible to recover from a mistake.
(3) It’s part of our job as criminal lawyers, and it’s in our own interest to do a good job.
Fortunately, it’s a lot easier to do this than we may have thought. The main discussion in this Chapter will describe the reasons why we must protect our clients from immigration damage resulting from the outcome of a criminal case, and the conclusion will outline a simple way to do so that uses our knowledge and skills as criminal lawyers, but does not require us to learn the complexities of immigration law.
