Posted on 07/22/2022 8:23:54 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The Biden administration has canned several immigration judges, all appointed by Trump, and replaced them with “progressive” magistrates. Republicans have an idea as to why this happened (spoiler alert: politics as usual) but sent a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland demanding answers anyway. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) want the answers by 5 p.m. on August 3.
The letter begins:
Dear Attorney General Garland:
We write about your decision to terminate the employment of multiple immigration judges who were hired during the Trump Administration. If true, your termination of these immigration judges because of their political ideology suggests that the Department of Justice (DOJ) acted in violation of the Civil Service Reform Act (CSRA), which specifically prohibits discrimination on the basis of political affiliation. We request your full cooperation with our inquiry.
Grassley and Jordan are pretty sure they know why the illegal immigrant-loving Biden admin sacked the judges, and they even have a receipt:
At least some of these terminations appear to have been the result of a coordinated effort between the Biden-Harris Administration and far-left immigration advocates. In fact, in tweeting about two of the terminations, one such advocate commented: ‘I’m immensely proud to have participated in this campaign.”
Immigration judges have a two-year probationary period, after which they are almost always moved to a permanent gig. Oddly, the judges all got fired just before their probationary period was up. Weird, right? It’s almost like Biden wants illegal immigrants to keep cascading over the southern border with impunity.
FACT-O-RAMA! Immigration judges determine which illegal immigrants can stay and which will be deported.
Surprisingly, immigration judges have their own union. It, too, sent off a cranky letter to the Department of Justice, which oversees the roughly 590 immigration judges. The union’s letter included the following:
(Excerpt) Read more at pjmedia.com ...
The immigration courts are supposed to give people who are seeking to remain in the United States or have violated the immigration law a fair review of any claims they have made. The Biden administration is trying to turn the immigration court into, essentially, a free candy store, so that anyone who appears in front of the immigration court winds up getting some kind of benefit or being allowed to stay in the United States. And that’s not what the courts were designed to do.
The Biden administration is in the process of ordering ICE to dismiss all of the cases that are currently before it. So they seem to be taking a creative approach to reducing the backlog by simply not pursuing the cases, and releasing these people into the interior of the United States. They also seem to be in a strange position of dismissing immigration judges who are appointed under President Trump and then trying to replace them with people who meet their own ideological framework. So none of this is a recipe for trying to deal with the issue and reduce the backlog in any kind of a meaningful way. And it leaves me wondering who is looking out for the interests of the American people in this whole transaction?
Of course he did. Those pesky immigration laws only get in the way
I didn’t think Presidents were allowed to fire people like this.
Oh wait, only Democrats can fire anyone they want. And in some cases, fire them en masse like Soetero did to the Bush US Attorney’s. My bad.
Hmmm... this has come up in the past I think. Someone talk about this before. Lemme look...
Ah - here it is:
“...He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.
He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries...”
- Declaration of Independence 7/4/1776
They will all be past the 2 year period when he is removed from office too.
Weak, stupid whining, as usual.
Bill Clinton fired all US Attorneys on his first day in office.
Elections have consequences, except, apparently, when Republicans win.
You would think the Republican party would make a big deal out of the rats’ official policy of dissolving our borders, given how obviously unpopular it is.
But they strangely quiet.
I remember the caterwauling in the media when Bush fired seven US attorneys.
You’da thought the world was ending.
Trump should have fired every Obama holdover as soon as he took office.
As soon as the Republicans take over Congress they need to pass a law that would prohibit presidents from firing judges appointed by a previous administration.
See, this is what THEY do. They get rid of those from the previous administration.
Us, not so much. And we ALWAYS get screwed.
Yeah... They're so mad they could CRUSH A GRAPE.!! (spit)
Pretty much the only way to fix that would be a constitutional amendment, making administrative law judges fall under Article III. But then there would have to be advice and consent by the Senate to appoint, just like any other life term federal judge.
These are not judges that are part of the judiciary and who require Senate approval. These are administrative court judges that are hired just like any other government employee is and who can be fired just as easily.
That’s exactly what I was about to post.
We are rapidly approaching 1776 again.
There needs to be a Congressional investigation into these firings like the ones they had every time President Trump fired Bonzo hired scumbags. Who’s our Adam Schitt or do we not have one?
like any other government employee is and who can be fired just as easily ....... a government “employee” that can be fired just as easily. Show me where a government employee can be fired ‘easily’.
I know who and what they are. But, as usual, you, like many others on this site, cannot seem to grasp any sense of sarcasm in anything.
And the Surrender Party will talk big, but do nothing about it. But hell, these guys can take a “punch”, over and over again. They talk big, but if they take over from the mid-terms it will be more of the same surrendering.
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