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Defense Dept. to send up to 600 military attorneys to serve as temporary immigration judges
CBS News ^ | September 3, 2025 | James LaPorta, Eleanor Watson, Katrina Kauffman

Posted on 09/03/2025 7:52:07 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie

The Defense Department is considering authorizing up to 600 military attorneys to serve as temporary immigration judges, a defense official confirmed.

Chief Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said in a statement that at the request of the Justice Department, the Defense Department is in the process of "identifying qualified Judge Advocates and civilian attorneys for details to serve as Temporary Immigration Judges."

Parnell said the Defense Department attorneys would help with the backlog of cases "by presiding over immigration hearings." The Associated Press first reported the Pentagon's plans.

(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: foxnewsweekendhost; immigration; jag; wasteofresources
A battalion of military lawyers! What an expensive way to run a war department. Maybe we could export some of them to Xi.
1 posted on 09/03/2025 7:52:07 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie
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To: The_Media_never_lie

Go away Troll!


2 posted on 09/03/2025 7:56:23 PM PDT by SoConPubbie (Trump has all the right enemies, DeSantis has all the wrong friends.)
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To: SoConPubbie

You cannot make me. I am not a troll.


3 posted on 09/03/2025 7:59:02 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie
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To: The_Media_never_lie
Very important to have enough of these immigration judges to clear the backlog of asylum cases so they can be deported.
4 posted on 09/03/2025 8:05:59 PM PDT by Bruce Campbells Chin ( )
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To: The_Media_never_lie

We need 60,000 Immigration Judges for the next 3 years.


5 posted on 09/03/2025 8:14:02 PM PDT by Paladin2 (YMMV)
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To: The_Media_never_lie

Will Lindsey Graham get called up for this work?


6 posted on 09/03/2025 8:51:39 PM PDT by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERYBODY'S BUSINESS, REMEMBER REV; NIEMOLLER)
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To: The_Media_never_lie
See 8 CFR 1003.10. EOIR = Executive Office for Immigration Review.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/8/1003.10

Electronic Code of Federal Regulations (e-CFR) Title 8—Aliens and Nationality
CHAPTER V—EXECUTIVE OFFICE FOR IMMIGRATION REVIEW, DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE SUBCHAPTER A—GENERAL PROVISIONS PART 1003—EXECUTIVE OFFICE FOR IMMIGRATION REVIEW Subpart B—Office of the Chief Immigration Judge § 1003.10 Immigration judges.

8 CFR § 1003.10 - Immigration judges.

§ 1003.10 Immigration judges.

(a) Appointment. The immigration judges are attorneys whom the Attorney General appoints as administrative judges within the Office of the Chief Immigration Judge to conduct specified classes of proceedings, including hearings under section 240 of the Act. Immigration judges shall act as the Attorney General's delegates in the cases that come before them.

(b) Powers and duties. In conducting hearings under section 240 of the Act and such other proceedings the Attorney General may assign to them, immigration judges shall exercise the powers and duties delegated to them by the Act and by the Attorney General through regulation. In deciding the individual cases before them, and subject to the applicable governing standards set forth in paragraph (d) of this section, immigration judges shall exercise their independent judgment and discretion and may take any action consistent with their authorities under the Act and regulations that is necessary or appropriate for the disposition or alternative resolution of such cases. Such actions include administrative closure, termination of proceedings, and dismissal of proceedings. The standards for the administrative closure, dismissal, and termination of cases are set forth in § 1003.18(c), 8 CFR 1239.2(c), and § 1003.18(d), respectively. Immigration judges shall administer oaths, receive evidence, and interrogate, examine, and cross-examine noncitizens and any witnesses. Subject to §§ 1003.35 and 1287.4 of this chapter, they may issue administrative subpoenas for the attendance of witnesses and the presentation of evidence. In all cases, immigration judges shall seek to resolve the questions before them in a timely and impartial manner consistent with the Act and regulations. In the absence of exceptional circumstances, an immigration judge shall complete administrative adjudication of an asylum application within 180 days after the date an application is filed. For purposes of this paragraph (b) and of §§ 1003.29 and 1240.6 of this chapter, the term exceptional circumstances refers to exceptional circumstances (such as battery or extreme cruelty to the alien or any child or parent of the alien, serious illness of the party or immigration judge, or serious illness or death of the spouse, child, or parent of the alien, but not including less compelling circumstances) beyond the control of the parties or the immigration court. A finding of good cause does not necessarily mean that an exceptional circumstance has also been established.

(c) Review. Decisions of immigration judges are subject to review by the Board of Immigration Appeals in any case in which the Board has jurisdiction as provided in 8 CFR 1003.1.

(d) Governing standards. Immigration judges shall be governed by the provisions and limitations prescribed by the Act and this chapter, by the decisions of the Board, and by the Attorney General (through review of a decision of the Board, by written order, or by determination and ruling pursuant to section 103 of the Act).

(e) Temporary immigration judges—(1) Designation. The Director is authorized to designate or select temporary immigration judges as provided in this paragraph (e).

(i) The Director may designate or select, with the approval of the Attorney General, former Board members, former immigration judges, administrative law judges employed within or retired from EOIR, and administrative law judges from other Executive Branch agencies to serve as temporary immigration judges for renewable terms not to exceed six months. Administrative law judges from other Executive Branch agencies must have the consent of their agencies to be designated as temporary immigration judges.

(ii) In addition, the Director may designate, with the approval of the Attorney General, Department of Justice attorneys with at least 10 years of legal experience in the field of immigration law to serve as temporary immigration judges for renewable terms not to exceed six months.

(2) Authority. A temporary immigration judge shall have the authority of an immigration judge to adjudicate assigned cases and administer immigration court matters, as provided in the immigration laws and regulations, subject to paragraph (e)(3) of this section.

(3) Assignment of temporary immigration judges. The Chief Immigration Judge is responsible for the overall oversight and management of the utilization of temporary immigration judges and for evaluating the results of the process. The Chief Immigration Judge shall ensure that each temporary immigration judge has received a suitable level of training to enable the temporary immigration judge to carry out the duties assigned.

[72 FR 53677, Sept. 20, 2007, as amended at 79 FR 39956, July 11, 2014; 85 FR 81655, 81750, Dec. 16, 2020; 89 FR 46792, May 29, 2024]


7 posted on 09/03/2025 11:16:34 PM PDT by woodpusher
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To: The_Media_never_lie

Ummmm - when you look at the big picture, the war department is also funded by our taxes, and this is a faster and cheaper way to get rid of the illegals...why do so many here bitch about the good things that are happening?


8 posted on 09/04/2025 4:50:58 AM PDT by trebb (So many fools - so little time...)
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"why do so many here bitch about the good things that are happening?

Because they sorely lack a working knowledge of American History?
9 posted on 09/04/2025 6:04:10 AM PDT by equaviator (Nobody's perfect. That's why they put pencils on erasers!)
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To: The_Media_never_lie

They’ll be a heck of a lot better than the DNC’s corrupt Dipstick Court skanky Judgees and the effeminate males who bend over for the criminal foreign illegal alien invaders who want to live like Americans without having to work for it. Scum.


10 posted on 09/04/2025 6:14:26 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Is this damn country so hard up for Judges that we have to hire Sparkle Sookananan from Trinidad?)
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To: Paladin2

We need 60,000 Immigration Judges for the next 3 years.

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I am not at all against this plan. Just don’t bring them near the battlefield, IMHO.


11 posted on 09/04/2025 7:07:33 AM PDT by The_Media_never_lie
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To: equaviator

“why do so many here bitch about the good things that are happening?

“Because they sorely lack a working knowledge of American History?”

I think a lot of them have become “woke” without even realizing it....if ignorance is truly bliss, they have to be writhing in a never-ending emotional orgasm.


12 posted on 09/05/2025 4:21:25 AM PDT by trebb (So many fools - so little time...)
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