Trump administration sends judges to immigration detention centers: sources

[inanna]

Source: Reuters

Thu Mar 9, 2017 | 7:55pm EST
By Julia Edwards Ainsley | WASHINGTON

The Department of Justice is deploying 50 judges to immigration detention facilities across the United States, according to two sources and a letter seen by Reuters and sent to judges on Thursday.

The department is also considering asking judges to sit from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m., split between two rotating shifts, to adjudicate more cases, the sources said. A notice about shift times was not included in the letter.

The Justice Department did not respond to a request for comment.

On Jan. 25 President Donald Trump issued an executive order aimed at speeding up deportations and holding migrants in detention until their cases can be heard. Trump campaigned on a pledge to get tougher on the estimated 11 million illegal immigrants, playing on fears of violent crime while promising to build a wall on the border with Mexico and to stop potential terrorists from entering the country.

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-immigration-judges-idUSKBN16H030?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews

[DK504]

1. The Department of Justice is deploying 50 judges to immigration detention facilities..."

Are the prisoners going to get to see any lawyers? Has the "Justice" dept. sent lawyers to the same facilities?? That whole the peeps having legal counsel, even if they aren't Americans.

[iluvtennis]

2. Absolutely...we need the ACLU to intercede. #DESPISE-dumpty

[hack89]

10. They do not have the right for counsel

Immigration law does not provide a right to a lawyer.

[elleng]

13. 'Although immigrants have a right to be represented by counsel in

immigration court, it has long been the case that the government has no
obligation to provide an attorney for those who are unable to afford one.'>>>

http://scholarship.law.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=9502&context=penn_law_review

[LuckyLib]

3. Let the show begin: are we fascist yet?

[March 4th]

4. My first thought

was that the judges were being sent there as prisoners.

[redwitch]

6. Mine too!

He's probably saving that for April.

[LOL Lib]

8. Just the judges that have "Mexican" last names.

[dchill]

9. And when will they let them out.

And are these judges or so-called judges?

Enquiring minds want to know!

[Crash2Parties]

5. Any way to find out how much the white sumprecists' cleansing of America is costing us?

[notdarkyet]

7. A lot.

[Crash2Parties]

11. I don't just mean America's soul - I mean how much cold hard taxpayer dollars?

Each time I hear about someone being deported back to Central or South America via a commercial airline, I have to wonder if the total is being tracked.

The real tragedy is the human cost of course, but the financial angle just might shock some into paying attention.

[Cryptoad]

12. I dont know GOP Math, but,,,

but my ole fashion Math figures they will have to process around 7600 deportees / day for the next four years to get them out. assuming no more babies , or new immigrates. not sure what they pay those judges but thats a helluva work load for four years 7 days a week.

[nitpicker]

14. +1

[Swagman]

15. this is so cruel and unjust

OK there are many people breaching immigration laws but this is picking on a handful when it would be impossible to deport millions of illegal immigrants quite apart from the ruinous economics.

# perhaps people should remember the vile Nazi's attack upon Jews mean that eventually the majority of German dentists who were mainly Jewish were either sent to Concentration Camps or fled and by 1944 the German population had rotten teeth and aching gums.

# Not as terrible as their other crimes but there are always unseen consequences to ideological madness.