The Independent
Last month, Clay Jackson was at a gas station near his home in Dallas when an attendant asked if he could offer up some legal advice to an immigrant family in the neighborhood.
A father was caught up in an Immigration and Customs Enforcement raid, and the mixed-status family with a U.S. citizen child wasn’t sure what to do next.
Jackson agreed to give them informal pro bono support in his personal capacity, not as an in-house lawyer for Fidelity National Financial, a multi-billion dollar Fortune 500 title insurance company.
“My goal was to try to find somebody just to be a conduit for them, to alleviate their immediate concerns and fear, give them just some basic understanding of what this is and how this may play out, and then try to find them with a good lawyer,” he told The Independent.
Then two people he says appeared to be federal law enforcement agents visited Jackson himself.
Two plain-clothed agents appeared at his home and accused Jackson of obstructing an investigation, he said.
Jackson talked to former Washington Post columnist Radley Balko about the people he believed were ICE agents arriving at his door. That article, which did not mention where Jackson worked, was published April 23.
That same day, Jackson was fired.
The incident follows a series of actions from Donald Trump’s administration targeting individual lawyers and firms that provided work for his perceived political enemies. Jackson fears ICE’s threats and his abrupt termination could send a “chilling” effect preventing lawyers from pro bono work or even informal advice.
In one executive order last month, Trump accused pro bono immigration attorneys of working with their clients to “conceal their past or lie about their circumstances when asserting their asylum claims” in an “attempt to circumvent immigration policies enacted to protect our national security and deceive the immigration authorities and courts into granting them undeserved relief.”
That order also presses the attorney general to investigate immigration attorneys.
Last month Michigan attorney Amir Makled was detained by federal immigration officers in an airport while returning from a family vacation. Boston attorney Bachir Atallah and his wife were detained at the Canadian border earlier this month.
A statement from Fidelity National Financial to The Independent noted that that the company does not discuss “personal employment matters.”
“This is to protect employee privacy and confidentiality. However, I will note that Mr. Jackson is no longer with the company,” the statement said.
Last month, Clay Jackson was at a gas station near his home in Dallas when an attendant asked if he could offer up some legal advice to an immigrant family in the neighborhood.
A father was caught up in an Immigration and Customs Enforcement raid, and the mixed-status family with a U.S. citizen child wasn’t sure what to do next.
Jackson agreed to give them informal pro bono support in his personal capacity, not as an in-house lawyer for Fidelity National Financial, a multi-billion dollar Fortune 500 title insurance company.
“My goal was to try to find somebody just to be a conduit for them, to alleviate their immediate concerns and fear, give them just some basic understanding of what this is and how this may play out, and then try to find them with a good lawyer,” he told The Independent.
Then two people he says appeared to be federal law enforcement agents visited Jackson himself.
Two plain-clothed agents appeared at his home and accused Jackson of obstructing an investigation, he said.
Jackson talked to former Washington Post columnist Radley Balko about the people he believed were ICE agents arriving at his door. That article, which did not mention where Jackson worked, was published April 23.
That same day, Jackson was fired.
The incident follows a series of actions from Donald Trump’s administration targeting individual lawyers and firms that provided work for his perceived political enemies. Jackson fears ICE’s threats and his abrupt termination could send a “chilling” effect preventing lawyers from pro bono work or even informal advice.
In one executive order last month, Trump accused pro bono immigration attorneys of working with their clients to “conceal their past or lie about their circumstances when asserting their asylum claims” in an “attempt to circumvent immigration policies enacted to protect our national security and deceive the immigration authorities and courts into granting them undeserved relief.”
That order also presses the attorney general to investigate immigration attorneys.
Last month Michigan attorney Amir Makled was detained by federal immigration officers in an airport while returning from a family vacation. Boston attorney Bachir Atallah and his wife were detained at the Canadian border earlier this month.
A statement from Fidelity National Financial to The Independent noted that that the company does not discuss “personal employment matters.”
“This is to protect employee privacy and confidentiality. However, I will note that Mr. Jackson is no longer with the company,” the statement said.
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What Valley lawyer offers pro bono help?
Names, ese.
This U.S.ARMY veteran says FDJT
01-06-21 * NEVER FORGET * 01-06-21
Republi-cons are America's fascist party
Conferencia Católica de Nueva York reclama a Trump por subir imagen como papa
La imagen de Trump aparece mientras el Vaticano se prepara para celebrar el cónclave, que comenzará el miércoles 7 de mayo.
In his 2005 book Ringside Seat to a Revolution, the historian David Dorado Romo chronicles the often garish manner in which the Mexican Revolution — one of the first mass uprisings of the twentieth century — was consumed and commodified by American spectators. His account centers on his hometown of El Paso, which, when large-scale hostilities broke out in 1911, became awash with journalists, photographers, and filmmakers as well as thrill seekers and tourists who posed for photographs with Mexican insurgents across the river, sitting atop their horses with borrowed rifles and bandoliers. During the Battle of Ciudad Juárez, real estate owners in downtown El Paso charged up to a dollar for a place on one of the various rooftops that overlooked the fighting, and when the dust finally settled, sightseeing cars advertised trips across the river to view the ruined city.
Lawyers are not good at taking advice. They think they know it all and better. Fact.
Is Trump, using his proxy, Stephen Miller and his “AF Legal Foundation” to sue Chief Justice Roberts in a new federal suit to send a message back to the Supreme Court to get Roberts back in line and under his thumb, and will it be successful?
Juan, do headlights work if you're travelling at the speed of light?
It's not about free legal advice. This crime is not much different than barratry or ambulance chasing.
Democrats are more concerned with protecting illegal immigrants breaking federal law than their own people. Why don't you work on assisting our homeless, our veterans and the handicapped? There is a lot of work that can be done. Democrats lost because of their ignorance. They are fighting for all the wrong reasons and they will lose again because as stupid as they are they didn't learn a thing from the last election.
You joined for the free sex change surgery instead of patriotism.
Hey bud, military enlistment is up substantially since Trump took office. Removing trans (mentally ill) from military was well played. You can thank grassroots loving Americans. FU losers. FA/FO
Th election was rigged by Musk, cocksucker.
The homeless have help. Many want to live without responsibilities. The veterans have an office that helps them, but many do not want the help. Many form militias to continue the fight. The handicapped get all the help they need but to a limit. Democrats are not ignorant, they are like Republicans. Democrats and Republicans are the same.
Fak lawyers they prey on misfortunes to make a fortune
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