Posted on 02/13/2019 7:55:01 PM PST by yesthatjallen
Immigration judges are reportedly leaving their roles or anticipating their departures citing sweeping changes to the court under Trump administration policies, BuzzFeed News reported Wednesday.
Judges told the outlet that they and their colleagues are departing their posts due to concerns about their jobs becoming politicized, as well as the increasing backlog driven in part by the administration's policies ending immigration judges' ability to indefinitely suspend certain cases and new restrictions on when asylum can be granted.
BuzzFeed reported that the case backlog for immigration judges has reached more than 800,000 under the Trump administration, while wait times have reached hundreds of days.
“It has become so emotionally brutal and exhausting that many people I know are leaving or talking about finding an exit strategy,” one judge told the news outlet. “Morale has never, ever been lower.”
Judge Rebecca Jamil said the Trump administration's previous "zero tolerance" policy of prosecuting those found crossing into the U.S. illegally motivated her decision to step down from the bench. The policy drew national backlash for resulting in the separation of thousands of migrant children from their families.
“I’d seen the faces of these families,” Jamil told BuzzFeed. “They weren’t abstractions to me.”
“I felt that I couldn’t be ‘Rebecca Jamil, representative of the attorney general’ while these things were going on,” she added.
Another judge, Laura Ramirez, said the changes made under the Trump administration pushed her to choose to retire as early as she could. Ramirez told BuzzFeed that the administration's case quota policies and what she perceived as a politicization of her job contributed to her decision.
“The job has become exceedingly more difficult as the court has veered even farther away from being administered as a court rather than a law enforcement bureaucracy,” said Ashley Tabaddor, an immigration judge who heads a union that represents roughly 350 immigration judges.
There are about 400 immigration judges in the U.S.
Tabaddor said the union noticed a higher level of retirements and resignations than in the past.
John Richardson, who worked as an immigration judge in Phoenix, stepped down on Sep. 30, 2018, according to the outlet.
"The timing of my retirement was a direct result of the draconian policies of the Administration, the relegation of [judges] to the status of 'action officers' who deport as many people as possible as soon as possible with only token due process, and blaming [judges] for the immigration crisis caused by decades of neglect and under funding of the Immigration Courts,” he said in a statement to BuzzFeed News.
Richardson retired the day before the Trump administration instituted its quota on the number of cases judges need to complete.
no logic allowed.
Little Known Fact...
About 75% of Immigration Judges used to be immigration lawyers!
Anybody want to guess what political party they belong to?
They are upset because Jeff Sessions required them to clear a minimum number of cases each week.
Before Sessions, they would automatically issue a continuance if any lawyer asked for one.
yea, but let’s run with it, federal immigration judges quit because they have 10 cases a day, oh the humanity, is there a blister on the gavel hand..my God don’t they know we get payoffs from el chapo wanna bees, they are disrupting the gravy train, therefore we quit, great, now declare an emergency from no judges and stop all immigration..hmmmm ok ok
ROFL!
Good riddance to every single judge who feels this way.
If only...
Good. Now maybe the Trump administration can replace them with people who will actually protect our borders from this slow motion invasion.
Illegal immigration has been weaponized by the domestic and foreign enemies of the United States, folks.
JoMa
A. M. F.
That means Trump is draining the swamp. Get rid of them as they are working for the benefit of the deep state. Good riddance.
Winning!
Good. More swamp draining.
Former immigration judges have a jail cell waiting.
Prison is a better alternative to death for Sedition.
“If you can’t stand the heat...”
WINNING!!
the judge jobs are becoming un politicized
Yes, a complete list of Fake News sources to be banned from Free Republic include Buzzfeed, CNN, NYT, etc.
That only leaves one credible, honest news source availble,
www GrandMa’s Conservative coffee talk with the Gals .com
Dear POTUS,
I am available ASAP. Willing to relocate to serve.
For the record, Yes I know how to say “Request for Refugee status is Denied! You get deported, you get deported and you get deported”.
In other words these liberal, whiny ass administrative Judges don’t like being told to follow the LAW instead of using their positions as Social Workers. Boo Hoo
They're the largest section in the Yellow Pages.......LOL!
This is a good thing. Now, if the US Senate will get into gear and appoint judges who oppose the invasion of the US before they lose that majority and/or the Presidency.
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