Trump administration, seeking to speed deportations, to impose quotas on immigration judges

[DonViejo]

Source: The Washington Post




By Nick Miroff April 2 at 6:24 PM

The Trump administration will pressure U.S. immigration judges to process cases faster by establishing a quota system tied to their annual performance reviews, according to new Justice Department directives.

The judges will be expected to clear at least 700 cases a year to receive a “satisfactory” performance rating, a standard that their union called an “unprecedented” step that risks undermining judicial independence. Attorney General Jeff Sessions has promised to stiffen immigration enforcement partly by moving more aggressively to clear a backlog of more than 600,000 cases pending before the Executive Office of Immigration Review (EOIR).

Some immigrants facing deportation wait years for a court date, and are typically authorized to work in the United States to support themselves during that time, an arrangement critics view as an incentive to illegal immigration.

According to a copy of the guidelines, first reported by The Wall Street Journal, the purpose of the new quota system will be to ensure “cases are completed in a timely, efficient, and effective manner.”

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/trump-administration-seeking-to-speed-deportations-to-impose-quotas-on-immigration-judges/2018/04/02/a282d650-36bb-11e8-b57c-9445cc4dfa5e_story.html?utm_term=.27005b77ba0f

[sinkingfeeling]

1. Have I mentioned how much I hate that orange POS?

[machoneman]

2. Once again, this idea won't fly.

The SC will be tasked eventually to comment and it will be a resounding NO!

[Girard442]

3. Boxcars.

That's what Trump really wants.

[yurbud]

6. then who is going to make his MAGA hats?

[dixiegrrrrl]

7. bingo.

Isn't much difference.

The people are swept up, placed in for profit detention centers, which Sessions is invested in, and various other contractors make money off them as they are sent out of the country.
reports of many legal citizens getting caught up in the raids.

[Skittles]

4. fucking disgusting

these are PEOPLE

[paleotn]

5. Nope.

Shit Gibbon hasn't quite figured out that the Judiciary doesn't report to him.

[yurbud]

8. thank god. I hope they make that clear in a public fashion.

Are those judges appointed for life?

[mahatmakanejeeves]

9. I take it immigration judges do not have lifetime appointments.

If they do, a bad performance review doesn't count for much.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

13. Never mind. I've got the answer.

Hat tip, commenter "clay" at Joe.My.God: http://www.joemygod.com/2018/04/03/doj-sets-deportation-quotas-immigration-judges/

Boreal • 6 hours ago

This seems blatantly unconstitutional. Our justice system is not a corporation.
Due process as long as quotas are met.

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clay -> Boreal • 6 hours ago

EXCEPT: Immigration Court Justices are not in the judicial branch, but locked in the executive branch. Jeffy Secessions really is their boss, already.

BTW: The justices are being juggled around, place to place, which is one of the reasons they've been unable to decrease the backlog. That's a management decision that's (also) Jeffy's fault.

Boreal -> clay • 6 hours ago

It would still seem that immigrants are being denied due process since the judges decision is based upon their own quota rather than a fair hearing.

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clay -> Boreal • 6 hours ago

Yes, but there's nearly no due process in the imigration court process to begin with.

[They_Live]

10. Nope, that's not gonna work.

Shoulda done some of that there book learnin'. Ya see, there's separate branches...

[NCjack]

11. Another bad idea, lifted out of the Nazi SS operating manual. nt

[BumRushDaShow]

12. The article says these "judges" are part of a board

that is part of the Executive Branch vs the Judicial Branch but also indicates cautions -

The EOIR is part of the executive branch, not the judicial branch, so it functions in part as an arm of U.S. law enforcement even though its judges are supposed to have full independence.

Judge A. Ashley Tabaddor, president of the National Association of Immigration Judges, said the quota system could introduce an “appealable” issue and invite legal challenges.

“It could call into question the integrity and impartiality of the court if a judge’s decision is influenced by factors outside the facts of the case, or if motions are denied out of a judge’s concern about keeping his or her job,” Tabaddor said.

“We don’t know of any other court whose judges are subject to individual quotas and deadlines as part of performance reviews and evaluations,” she said.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/trump-administration-seeking-to-speed-deportations-to-impose-quotas-on-immigration-judges/2018/04/02/a282d650-36bb-11e8-b57c-9445cc4dfa5e_story.html?utm_term=.3bf40c45a71b

Meaning that whatever this Immigration Review group comes up with as a final adjudications for their cases, that could be challenged and possibly be thrown out by the federal courts if there impartiality is found.