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Dope1: Get denied at your asylum hearing because you're on a terror watch list? Now you get a US taxpayer funded lawyer to help you beat the rap!

No, learn to read better. The legislation says:

Sec. 3514. Conforming amendment
• Amends Sec. 292 of the Immigration and Nationality Act to clarify that any individual subject to a removal proceeding before an immigration judge and a subsequent appeal proceeding has the ability to access authorized legal counsel.

The representation is only accessible, it is not paid for by the federal government.

The only individuals who get taxpayer funded representation are children and the incompetent:

Also from Sec. 3514. Conforming amendment (same paragraph):
Clarifies that the federal government shall provide, at government expense, counsel for certain unaccompanied alien children and, subject to appropriations, individuals found incompetent to represent themselves.

Or do believe an eleven-year-old should be expected to represent herself at a hearing?

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