Illegal Immigrants With Violent Criminal Histories Could Receive Free Legal Aid

Providing legal services to immigrants with violent criminal histories is prohibited by existing law.

FILE PHOTO: ICE Field Office Director, Enforcement and Removal Operations, David Marin and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Fugitive Operations team search for a Mexican national at a home in Hawthorne, California, U.S., March 1, 2020. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson/File Photo

A bill recently introduced in the California Legislature seeks to expand access to free legal services for illegal immigrants.

Assembly Bill 2031, also known as the Rep for All Act and introduced by Asm. Reginald Byron Jones-Sawyer, would offer more free legal services to illegal immigrants, including to those with violent criminal histories and others with an intention of migrating to the state.