The word “illegal” is missing from this entire article. I’ve added it in boxed quotes. From the Associated Press:
SEATTLE – The U.S. Justice Department has ordered a Seattle-based immigrant rights group to halt a large part of the work it does to advise [illegal] immigrants of their legal rights and help them fill out paperwork – a demand that the organization says would force thousands of people to go without legal help in deportation cases.
The nonprofit Northwest [Illegal] Immigrant Rights Project sued the Justice Department Monday in federal court in Seattle in an effort to block the order. The group said the Justice Department’s demand violates its First Amendment rights to free speech, assembly and to petition the government.
Northwest [Illegal] Immigrant Rights Project, which recently has challenged President Donald Trump’s travel ban in court, helps provide free legal representation to more than 200 [illegal] immigrants facing deportation every year. However, it also provides lesser help, such as assistance with asylum applications, to hundreds more, and it holds clinics to help immigrants learn about their legal rights.
In a cease-and-desist letter sent last month, the Justice Department’s Executive Office of Immigration Review told the group it cannot provide legal help unless it undertakes formal representation of a client. It cited a rule adopted in 2008 and designed in part to curtail attorney misconduct and so-called “notario” fraud, in which people unauthorized to practice law advertised themselves as able to help [illegal] immigrants obtain lawful status.
“By holding attorneys accountable for their conduct, this rule makes it possible for EOIR to impose disciplinary sanctions on attorneys who do not provide adequate representation to their clients,” disciplinary counsel Jennifer J. Barnes wrote in the letter.