Posted on 08/17/2025 7:04:56 AM PDT by TheDon
As the Trump administration looks to increase the number of deportations of undocumented immigrants, a new battle has opened inside the nation's immigration courts.
Immigration judges and lawyers are being targeted for following established procedures.
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The fear intensified in March when President Donald Trump issued an executive order that accused immigration lawyers of coaching their clients to lie in asylum petitions.
The president then directed the U.S. Attorney General to identify misconduct "such as filing frivolous litigation or engaging in fraudulent practices" and sanction attorneys who "violate professional conduct rules."
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There's been an ongoing purge of immigration judges since Trump took office.
On Inauguration Day, the Justice Department fired the acting head of the immigration court system and three top officials. Since then, more than 100 immigration judges have been fired.
Many were hired in the past two years and were still in their probationary period
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Immigration judges are different than criminal court judges. They are not appointed or elected. They're civil servants and can be fired like other federal employees.
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A review of Tracreports, a website run by Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, shows several of those fired were approving more than 90% of asylum cases. For comparison, just 4% of asylum seekers are being approved at Adelanto ICE Detention Center in San Bernardino County. Immigration judges have gotten policy memos pressuring them to reject more asylum cases.
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Court observers noted that since the courthouse arrests began there's been an increase in the number of immigrants who are too afraid to show up for a hearing.
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Immigrants who don't show up for an appointment could have their case dismissed, making them immediately deportable.
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(Excerpt) Read more at abc7news.com ...
Nice to see the corrupt immigration judges and attorneys getting the attention they need to get back under the control of the executive branch.
More ICE please!
I voted for this.
Immigration judges and lawyers are being targeted for following illegal established traitor procedures instead of following black letter law.
The author says the judges and lawyers are following established procedures. Then, the idiot writer mentions the charges are the lawyers are coaching clients to lie, and are filing frivolous lawsuits.
I hate the media.
Fixed.
Just cause. It is ABC.
Established by whom? The open order crowd?
And the appropriate response to these leftists is FAFO.
Many were hired in the past two years...
“ Immigration judges and lawyers are being targeted for following established procedures.”
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So who established the “procedures”. We should no longer accept as “proof” applicants merely saying the “magic words” they were coached to say.
And, further, we should no longer engage in accepting “refugees”. Nor should we accept “lottery winners” which is STUPID!
“ Immigration judges and lawyers are being targeted for following established procedures.”
Established by the previous administration I believe.
“As the Trump administration looks to increase the number of deportations of undocumented immigrants, a new battle has opened inside the nation’s immigration courts.”
ONCE AGAIN USING THE TERM “UNDOCUMENTED” FOR “ILLEGAL” IS AN ATTEMPT TO MUDDY THE ISSUE. IT IS A LIE.
Exposing the complicit that were previously held in high regard is probably his greatest accomplishment.
Immigration judges, lawyers targeted by Trump administration
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It’s a start. Awesome!
Immigration judges and lawyers are being targeted for following established procedures.
Respectfully TheDon, regarding the legal establishment following procedures, constitutional expert St. George Tucker had noted in the early 1800s that even then the legal system was inadvertently and/or deliberately using common law as a back door to effectively amend the Constitution (my words).
If it were, in fact, an unconstitutional exercise of power in congress to pass a law establishing the bank, nothing can manifest the impropriety of over-stepping the limits of the constitution, more than the act which we have just noticed. It shows that the most unauthorised acts of government may be drawn into precedents to justify other unwarrantable usurpations [emphasis added]. —Article 1, Section 8, Clause 6, St. George Tucker, Blackstone's Commentaries 1:App. 262--64, 1803.
They still walk the earth.
They’re happy to destroy our sovereignty. Being American First shouldn’t be a death sentence.
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