Another IJ Faux Paux

January 19, 2006

Thanks to Cappy White for this tidbit!

http://legalaffairs.org/howappealing/

Add this to the list of things Immigration Judges probably shouldn’t say during an on-the-record hearing:

According to

an opinion that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit

issued today, Immigration Judge Donald Ferlise said on the record during an asylum hearing, “You have to understand, the whole world does not revolve around you and the other Indonesians that just want to live here because they enjoy the United States better than they enjoy living in Indonesia. It is not a world that revolves around you and your ethnic group.” In a footnote to the Third Circuit’s discussion of those remarks, the court notes, “This is not the first time we have been troubled by the conduct of the IJ who presided over the proceedings in this case.”