The Revolt of the (Immigration) Judges

Stephen Franklin for the American Prospect considers the political controversy over the political independence of U.S. immigration judges, who decide, among other things, whether to remove noncitizens from the United States.  

The video above is from the National Association of Immigration Judges (NAIJ), the union that represents the nation’s 460-plus immigration judges—many of whom come from government and law enforcement backgrounds.

Franklin discusses how NAIJ has lobbied Congress and spoken out frequently about what’s gone wrong with the immigration courts under the Trump administration. “Such criticisms, the judges say, are the reason that the government sought last August to decertify their union, the only such effort taken by the Trump administration against a federal workers’ labor organization.”

KJ