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SEATTLE, Wash. (AP) – Nonprofit legal groups around the country can keep assisting immigrants facing deportation.
A federal judge in Seattle made that ruling today.
A Justice Department decision threatened to curtail much of their work.
It told the Seattle-based Northwest Immigrant Rights Project that it cannot provide legal assistance to immigrants unless it formally represents them in court.
The judge says that violates the groups’ First Amendment rights.
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