IJ Leaves SF Court, Burning Bridges Loudly
Whoa. And I mean, whoa. You have GOT to check out this “exclusive” that the SF Chronicle has with outgoing IJ William Hanrahan from the San Francisco immigration court.
Hanrahan spent a brief 14 months as the assistant chief immigration judge, overseeing San Francisco’s 25 immigration judges and attendant staff. He recently quit and his interview with the Chronicle detailing the reasons for his departure is nothing less than a good old fashioned burning bridges party.
Hanrahan characterized the immigration court as a “soul-crushing bureaucracy.” Among his frustrations with the immigration court system:
a system run by the U.S. Department of Justice and subject to its political whims, a top-down management style that throttled innovation and slow-walked modernizing reforms, and a disconcerting proximity to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement attorneys who act as the court’s prosecutors.
“On a daily basis I really felt I was being forced to rearrange the deck chairs on a ship that was going down.”
Other choice words in the article: “absurdities”, dysfunction, disorganization, “not real courts.” Did your burning bridges bingo card include “level of idiocy”? If so, you’re in luck. That’s on the deck too!
This is a MUST READ.
-KitJ