Third Circuit Judge Maryanne Trump Barry Criticizes Immigration Laws

A federal appeals judge has sharply criticized U.S. immigration laws,writing that rules designed to combat terrorism instead force the”knee-jerk” removal of “decent men and women.”

Judge Maryanne Trump Barry complained that judges have nodiscretion in applying harsh and complex laws, and she urged thefederal government to intervene in the case of a man from NorthernIreland denied asylum this week by the panel on which she sits, the 3rdU.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

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Full opinion at: http://www.ca3.uscourts.gov/opinarch/034513p.pdf

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