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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Winning.
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.
More winning!
Beautiful plumage...
And the immigration law they're talking about has been on the books since 1884.
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.
Winning!!
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.
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?
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.
wonder if “kickbacks” of a sort being disrupted are forcing them to seek more profitable work elsewhere
They’re leftist vermin, letting the US become infiltrated with scum, filth and trash. Good riddance.
“...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!
Waaaaaaaaaa
Yahooooooo was happy when judges were stepping down because they refuse to officiate at sham marriages for same sex couples.
Fair & passionate?!!!! How 'bout lawful and unlawful! Good riddance!
Apparently they are of the mind that Donald Trump will have another 4 years in his term..
Clean the F’n swamp. Trump should hasten their departure by firing them forthwith.
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