Sensenbrenner Proposals Stir Little Debate in Wisconsin
The courts have chastised the Board of Immigration Appeals and immigration judges for years. In January, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales instructed them to clean up their act. Still, reviewing courts criticize the IJ’s treatment of noncitizens and their claims. For two recent cases, see
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Given what we know what is going on in our immigration courts combined with limited scrutiny of IJ rulings by the BIA, one wonders what justification there can be for no judicial review or deferential judicial review of BIA decisions.
U.S. Rep. James Sensenbrenner’s immigration-control proposals have helped ignite protests across the nation but created little controversy in his solidly Republican Wisconsin district.
One newspaper in his district says it has yet to receive a single piece of reader mail concerning the 14-term Republican U.S. House of Representatives member’s proposals to make undocumented immigration status a felony and build an additional 700-mile fence along the U.S.-Mexico border.
“All I hear from my constituents is to keep at it,” Sensenbrenner told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel recently.
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