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That means the system already profoundly disadvantages indigent asylum seekers — they can’t afford a lawyer, often don’t speak English and have no road map for navigating arcane immigration law.

In it, he condemned “wealthy owners and all masters” who sought to profit off “the indigent and destitute.”

As a young immigration lawyer in California’s Central Valley, Matthew Barragan cut his teeth defending the rights of indigent workers facing deportation.

To avoid paying the SEC judgments, prosecutors say, Bilzerian falsely represented that he was indigent.

What galls her is that “it’s so often the case that a person with a disability has to make themselves indigent in order to qualify for what they need,” Smith said.