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Immigration Judges Admit Trump Is The Reason They’re Quitting
Yahoo.com ^ | 1/28/20 | Christina Marfice

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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To: cotton1706
WINNING!!!

41 posted on 01/29/2020 4:00:32 AM PST by Chode (Send bachelors and come heavily armed.)
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To: cotton1706

Winning.


42 posted on 01/29/2020 4:02:22 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: cotton1706

Great article.

The disillusionment they feel when they see that their days of legislating from the bench are numbered is wonderful to see.

I hope they wring their hands in frustration.


43 posted on 01/29/2020 4:02:41 AM PST by rlmorel (Finding middle ground with tyranny or evil makes you either a tyrant or evil. Often both.)
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To: cotton1706

More winning!


44 posted on 01/29/2020 4:03:13 AM PST by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: gov_bean_ counter

Beautiful plumage...


45 posted on 01/29/2020 4:05:04 AM PST by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: cotton1706
Bribes are probably slacking.

And the immigration law they're talking about has been on the books since 1884.

46 posted on 01/29/2020 4:10:16 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: cotton1706

These bad judges have wrought this upon our country, and now they can’t bear to rectify the damage THEY have caused. Because of their intellectual laziness & emotionalism more and more people were emboldened to come.

This immigration mess is THEIR fault because they failed to uphold the law.


47 posted on 01/29/2020 4:11:07 AM PST by Lopeover (Patriots Fight)
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To: cotton1706

Winning!!


48 posted on 01/29/2020 4:13:17 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: cotton1706

They aren’t really judges. They’re just pimps with ugly robes. Good riddance. We’d be better off if they’d leave the country. Them and every other person on the DNC rolls.


49 posted on 01/29/2020 4:16:49 AM PST by LouAvul
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To: cotton1706

GOOD!

I wonder if they’ll ever realize that the way they’ve been handling their jobs is one of the reasons President Trump got elected in the first place?


50 posted on 01/29/2020 4:22:56 AM PST by Roccus (Prima di ogni altra cosa, siate armati!)
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To: cotton1706

IJ is known to be a bad job d/t management, and has been for years. Those Judges move on as soon as they can. Anyone who has been there for 24 years must be too incompetent to get a job anywhere else.


51 posted on 01/29/2020 4:23:38 AM PST by MIDad23
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To: cotton1706

wonder if “kickbacks” of a sort being disrupted are forcing them to seek more profitable work elsewhere


52 posted on 01/29/2020 4:25:43 AM PST by mo ("If you understand, no explanation is needed; if you don't understand, no explanation is possible")
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To: cotton1706

They’re leftist vermin, letting the US become infiltrated with scum, filth and trash. Good riddance.


53 posted on 01/29/2020 4:36:03 AM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: cotton1706

“...they simply cannot stomach having to enforce Trump administration policies on immigrants. …”

So-even NOW, with a virtual pandemic staring them in the face, they don’t GET IT!


54 posted on 01/29/2020 4:42:24 AM PST by SMARTY ("Nobility is defined by the demands it makes on us - by obligations, not by rights".)
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To: HartleyMBaldwin
😂
55 posted on 01/29/2020 4:44:00 AM PST by gov_bean_ counter (Trump didnÂ’t want an AG, he wanted a consigliere.)
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To: cotton1706

56 posted on 01/29/2020 4:45:06 AM PST by servo1969
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To: cotton1706

Waaaaaaaaaa

Yahooooooo was happy when judges were stepping down because they refuse to officiate at sham marriages for same sex couples.


57 posted on 01/29/2020 4:45:13 AM PST by a fool in paradise (We need a tax to stamp out Communism- If you espouse Marxism weÂ’ll redistribute all of your money.)
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To: cotton1706
This is a perilous time for a fair and passionate judge to leave the bench.

Fair & passionate?!!!! How 'bout lawful and unlawful! Good riddance!

58 posted on 01/29/2020 4:48:14 AM PST by Road Warrior ‘04 (Boycott The NFL! Molon Labe! Oathkeeper)
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To: Flick Lives

Apparently they are of the mind that Donald Trump will have another 4 years in his term..


59 posted on 01/29/2020 4:48:14 AM PST by a fool in paradise (We need a tax to stamp out Communism- If you espouse Marxism weÂ’ll redistribute all of your money.)
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To: cotton1706

Clean the F’n swamp. Trump should hasten their departure by firing them forthwith.


60 posted on 01/29/2020 4:48:33 AM PST by kenmcg (tHE WHOLE)
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