Immigration judges have been instructed to hold at least three hearings a day during which they determine if undocumented migrants deserve to stay in America. This intensely cramped schedule, advocates say, will threaten immigrants’ right to due process and speed up deportations, according to a Thursday BuzzFeed News report.
The Department of Justice had already mandated in October that immigration judges must finish 700 cases a year, imposing pressure and forcing judges to choose between giving some immigrants thorough hearings and meeting their quotas.
“If a judge is going to think: ‘let me do [the] right thing and have an eight-hour hearing, or I’ve got my kids’ tuition I have to pay, I’m going to do what they want me to do,’” immigration lawyer Jeffrey Chase told BuzzFeed. “It’s the next step in taking away immigration judges’ independence, making them choose between job security and due process.”
Hmm and the Great Orange Job Creator and his Dixie Pixie never ever thought to hire more personnel.
Gee, I wonder if they also have a cap on people they can find eligible to stay, like the old “unwritten” quota on jews.
That would rather defeat the purpose, no?
I know, but these are small human beings they can’t just throw them over the border.
I posted this yesterday from NPR. Hungary is not going to feed asylum seekers that are appealing their asylum denial. They will not allow them to buy food, they will not allow them food donated, and every day Human Right attorneys have to go to court to force the Hungarian gov’t to feed them.
Hungarian PM Viktor Orban is worse than Trump, but I hope Trump’s aides are keeping Viktor’s methods from Trump.
Put another way, just give 'em a hearing; it doesn’t have to be fair.