Free legal help for Mexicans expands: CONSULATE, LAWYERS TEAM UP TO COVER FOUR COUNTIES.

From: San Jose Mercury News (San Jose, CA) | Date: April 20, 2007 | Copyright information

Byline: Jessie Mangaliman

Apr. 20--In a first of its kind alliance, the Santa Clara County chapter of an immigration lawyer's organization is teaming up with the Mexican Consulate in San Jose to provide free legal consultation to Mexican immigrants from four Bay Area counties. The goal, organizers said, is to steer vulnerable immigrants away from unscrupulous "notarios" or people posing as immigration legal experts, and get them proper legal help. Officials of th...

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