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The fired San Francisco judges who have spoken publicly have said that their decisions from the bench were motivated by adherence to the law, not personal ideology.

Immigration judges have their own weird status, where they’re DoJ employees, rather than having a lifetime appointment under Article III of the Constitution.

  • LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net
    12·
    1 day ago

    Makes sense. Peak of the “America can do no wrong” hubris.

    I didn’t find a direct reference to the creation of immigration courts but maybe I missed it.

    • PhilipTheBucket@piefed.socialEnglish
      13·
      1 day ago

      Oh, wait, maybe I am wrong. I thought that was when it was set up, but now I found something else that says 1986. Basically there were a series of gradual adjustments during a time of pretty intense racism within the system, this was back in the time period when a jury looked at the Rodney King beating and said it looked fine to them.

      There’s also this:

      One of the most extensive mass expulsion campaigns in US history, on the premise that Mexican migrants and US-born Mexican Americans were responsible for significant aspects of the nation’s economic miseries. By the late 1930s, 2 million people had been expelled to Mexico; 60% are estimated to have been US citizens.

      The Immigration and Naturalization Service launched Operation Wetback, a paramilitary campaign to expel Mexican migrants. Over 1 million people were apprehended; many families were separated by deportation. Operation Wetback reduced unauthorized crossings; the government replaced those workers—because of employer demands—with legal guest workers through the Bracero Program.

      And also:

      A November 2019 report by the United States Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General found that “senior managers” involved in the hiring of Immigration Judges had used a system of “code words” to rate “the attractiveness” of female candidates.[32]

      What the fuck

      What the FUCK