Posted on 01/29/2020 2:56:34 AM PST by cotton1706
This is a perilous time for a fair and passionate judge to leave the bench. By doing so, they risk having Donald Trump appoint their replacement, and considering Trump’s policies and beliefs, that new appointee is pretty likely to have a harsh anti-immigration stance.
But dozens of immigration judges have reported that despite their efforts to stick out the presidency, they’ve just reached their breaking points. The Los Angeles Times spoke with dozens of judges who are quitting or taking early retirement because they simply cannot stomach having to enforce Trump administration policies on immigrants.
Immigration Judge Charles Honeyman served for 24 years on the bench, and thought he still had more time in him. But this month he quit. He told the paper he pushed back against Trump as best he could, doing things like granting asylum for domestic violence victims from other countries, even after the administration released an order saying domestic violence isn’t a valid reason for asylum.
“There are a lot of cases I’m going to have to deny that I’ll feel sick over,” Honeyman said as he reached his breaking point and quit.
A. Ashley Tabaddor, a Los Angeles judge and president of the National Association of Immigration Judges union, called working under the Trump administration “unbearable.”
“Judges are going to other federal agencies and retiring as soon as possible,” Tabaddor said. “They just don’t want to deal with it.”
Jeffrey Chase, a former immigration judge from New York, has formed a group for all the judges nationwide who have quit under this administration’s rules. He said he now has 40 members.
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EXCELLENT!!!! Now what we need is 4 more years of Trump so he can replace them with judges who will actually enforce our immigration laws.
Enforce the law. That is what they are supposed to do. If you cant, then find something else to do.
Winning.
(And I'm not tired of it yet!)
The secondary gains with President Trump never end. Weeding out these folks is a wonderful thing.
The retirement $ are already lost to us but at least they will not be giving away America’s $ and the right to be here to a never ending parade of those who are not entitled to one red hot dime.
Let's see what else he can make them do...
These people are NOT 'immigrants' they're illegals...
BYE-BYE
more unemployed liberal hacks, this is a good thing.
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