News From the Border

Providing the news from a different front but from a war that we must win as well! I recognize the poverty and desperate conditions that many Latinos live in. We, as the USA, have a responsibility to do as much as we can to reach out to aid and assist spiritually with the Gospel and naturally with training, technology and resources. But poverty gives no one the right to break the laws of another sovereign nation.

Tuesday, February 06, 2007

Notaries pose as lawyers, prey on immigrants

Latin Americans with little English skill may fall for scam at great personal cost

the associated press

Tucson, Arizona | Published: 02.06.2007

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — When Salvadoran immigrant Irma Yolanda Membreno-Aleman wanted to apply for temporary asylum, she did what she would have done for any legal matter back home: She went to see a "notario publico."

It was a mistake that cost her thousands of dollars, her work authorization and her job, along with rejection of her petition, a lawsuit claims.

In much of Latin America, most notaries are also lawyers. In the United States, notaries public are not lawyers and cannot give legal advice; they can administer oaths and witness signatures, and that's it.

The difference has allowed scam artists to prey on immigrants with limited English and little understanding of the U.S, legal system by misrepresenting themselves as lawyers, immigration lawyers say.

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