Immigration "Judges" Aren't Real Judges—They're Employees Of The EXECUTIVE Office Of Immigration Review

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James Fulford
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VDare
Article date: 
20 September 2018
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National News
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enforcement
deportation
DOJ
immigration
illegal aliens
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The functionaries  known as a "immigration judges" are employees of the Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) which is part of the Department of Justice.
 
 
In the opinion, Sessions wrote that immigration judges don't have "free-floating power" to end deportation cases, by Zoe Tillman, Buzzfeed, September 19, 2018
 
WASHINGTON — A representative of the national union of immigration judges says a new decision by Attorney General Jeff Sessions about the authority of judges to dismiss immigration cases is part of a broader effort by Sessions to limit their independence.
 
In an opinion released Wednesday by the Justice Department, Sessions wrote that immigration judges do not have "free-floating power" to dismiss removal proceedings. Judges could dismiss a case if the Department of Homeland Security failed to meet its burden of proof, Sessions wrote, or if specific conditions spelled out in existing regulations were met. Sessions reversed an immigration judge's decision to terminate a removal case, finding it wasn't based on the law or regulations....
 
In an opinion released Wednesday by the Justice Department, Sessions wrote that immigration judges do not have "free-floating power" to dismiss removal proceedings. Judges could dismiss a case if the Department of Homeland Security failed to meet its burden of proof, Sessions wrote, or if specific conditions spelled out in existing regulations were met....
 

The main thing you need to know about the EOIR, aside from the obvious fact that they're all Executive Branch employees, is that they operate under the same conditions as a parole board, in that everyone who comes before them is guilty.

You only get to the EOIR if you're already a deportable immigrant, just as you only get to the parole board after you've been convicted and sentenced to the penitentiary. And the parole board isn't supposed to get "independent" ideas about releasing dangerous criminals back in to society.

 

 

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