The Maine Commission on Public Defense Services, formerly known as the Maine Commission on Indigent Legal Services, is seeking to hire immigration law consultants to assist the state’s public defenders in their representation of noncitizen defendants.
According to a Request for Proposals (RFP) document posted by the Mills administration on Thursday, the state is seeking proposals from attorneys and law firms that would provide immigration law consultation to public defenders who are representing indigent noncitizen clients in criminal and juvenile cases.
“The successful Bidder will provide prompt immigration law consultation and advice to attorneys representing indigent non-citizens in criminal and juvenile cases,” the Mills administration wrote in the RFP.
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The immigration law consultant would be expected to be on call during regular business hours to respond to inquiries from public defenders, primarily over email, and would be expected to work and estimated 12 to 18 hours per week for Public Defense Services.
The consultant will also be expected to participate as a presenter in a half-day training program at the Maine Commission on Public Defense Services for education on basic immigration law, and minimum standards training for criminal law and juvenile law.
It is unclear from the RFP document how much the Mills administration plans to spend on the immigration law consultant contract. The Commission is accepting proposals from bidders through Nov. 14.
In March of this year, Maine Gov. Janet Mills (D) signed a bill into law that created two new public defender offices to serve Aroostook, Penobscot, and Piscataquis counties, and will add ten new public defense attorneys — increasing the total number statewide from 15 to 25.
At the time of the bill’s passage, more than 500 adult criminal defendants were without counsel due to the state’s shortage of public defenders.
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Non citizens is a democrat created word for illegals. Throw them back across the border where they belong. Oh and take Mills also. She isnt doing Mainers any good at ALL. This state is almost unrecognizable now thanks to democrats and Mr SoreAss.
She is actively working to subvert the best interest of the state. She must be impeached today.
If anyone doesn’t think she’s trying to destroy Maine, they’re willingly ignorant or part of the effort.
Oh goody .
10 new attorneys is an easy million dollars .
Janet Mills spends it faster than she gets it .
That’s why we already have a 25-26 deficit of a billion .
The ONLY way to hobble this witch is to unseat all her democrat minions .
Vote them out in November .
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One question. On top of everything else we pay for, who pays for this?
If the money is high enough, will the firm of D&W slither in to suck it up?
Maybe I’m dumb, but why do illegal aliens have the same rights as citizens? I know one thing, I’m very tired of paying for things without any say in the process.
And I’m tired of being accused of having no compassion for other suffering people. The socialists in left wing admins has brought us here with their insane policies. We have run out of other people’s money and Americans are suffering. My children keep asking what happened to OUR American dream?
Last winter we starved and froze bc of high food and energy bills. Took all summer to pay off and here we are again. Fixed incomes only go so far.
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