Secret Identities of Immigration Judges Revealed
Attorney Bryan Johnson writes that the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) long has concealed the identities of Immigration Judges named in complaints of misconduct. In response to a FOIA from the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA), the DOJ released over 14,000 pages of documents in connection to 770 complaints made against immigration judges between 2008 and 2013. The lawsuit is still pending, and DOJ has yet to reveal any of the identities of the Immigration Judges. Using the information gleaned from unredacted documents, he identified 58 immigration judges with 443 complaints. In other words, over half of the complaints are now matched with the immigration judge whom the complaint was made against. On the link above, Johnson has made available various documents.
KJ