Jeff Sessions Is Executing Trump’s Immigration Plans With a Quiet, Efficient Brutality

Mother Jones ^ | 7SEP18 | Sophie Murguia and Kanyakrit Vongkiatkajorn

[vannrox]

Over the past few months, Attorney General Jeff Sessions has faced fierce criticism for his role in the Trump administration’s family separation policy. But while the White House continues to deal with the fallout from tearing kids away from their parents at the border, Sessions has been busy orchestrating another, much quieter attack on the country’s immigration system.

Tensions have been simmering for months between the attorney general and the hundreds of judges overseeing immigration courts, but they reached a new high in July. The flashpoint was the case of Reynaldo Castro-Tum, a Guatemalan man who was scheduled to appear in a Philadelphia immigration court but had repeatedly failed to turn up. The judge, Steven Morley, wanted to determine whether Castro-Tum had received adequate notice, and rescheduled a hearing for late July. But instead of waiting for that appointment, the Justice Department sent a new judge from Virginia to take over the case. Judge Deepali Nadkarni subsequently ordered Castro-Tum deported.

The move sparked immediate outcry: The National Association of Immigration Judges (NAIJ), a union representing about 350 immigration judges, filed a formal grievance, and 15 retired immigration judges released a public statement condemning the action. “Such interference with judicial independence is unacceptable,” they wrote.

[Right-wing Librarian]

>>Strzok was fired. Comey was fired. Sally Yates was fired. McCabe resigned. Page and Ohr are said to have flipped by people who have heard them interviewed.
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Does anyone know exactly who is firing these people? Is it coming directly from POTUS, or is it Sessions, or Wray? If it is POTUS, is he ordering the firing, or simply approving someone else’s recommendation to fire?

[toddausauras]

Fair points!