Trump reduces the rules for employing temporary immigration judges
The Trump administration has taken another step in practicing more control of the immigration courts by relaxing qualifications to employ judges.
Thursday , The administration carried out a base This allows the Ministry of Justice to employ lawyers without experimenting with the immigration law to work as temporary migration judges.
“This rule will enable the manager, with the approval of the Attorney General, from immigration court employees with a sufficient number of good training judges and qualified highly qualified to increase the reduction of outstanding cases and the judiciary in the end.”
Immigration judges are part of the executive branch, not the independent judicial branch of the American government.
Before the change, temporary migration judges (Tijs) were asked to be judges for immigration or other types of government judges and lawyers from other executive branches, or obtaining legal experience at least 10 years in the field of immigration law.
According to the notice published in the federal registry, “The administration believes that removing the factional regulatory prohibition is wise to ensure that the director and general attorney generally consider the highly qualified candidates for TIJ dates.”
The administration said that changing the base is required, to address a large accumulation of immigration.
The new base has followed the shooting or demobilization of the judges – since President Donald Trump took office, about 100 judges of immigration have been expelled or forced to resign. This greatly reduced the number of judges, who reached about 650, according to the International Vocational and Technicians Union, the union that represents immigration judges. About 3.7 million migration cases are discovered in accumulation.
Critics of the new base says it is the way to sit down to sitting judges who will implement the Trump’s collective deportation agenda.
“It is part of the same style that we have seen everywhere else. They are trying to reshape the federal workforce in ways, as you know, they will not receive any resistance to what the White House wants to do,” said Elizabeth Tuo, the high policy strategy and lawyer at the Legal Resources Center for Immigrants.
Tofa asked how the judges will be properly trained since they were employed for a period of six months, and new immigration judges are generally subject to six weeks of training.
Tua said: “The procedures for the Immigration Court are doubtful on a normal day, and this is not an ordinary day.” “So I think we will see continuous erosion of due legal procedures. I think we will see more persons with the specific political bias that are appointed in this role.”
The administration has adopted strategies for deporting migrants more quickly, including bypassing some legal procedures, which led to lawsuits and court battles. The administration also directed immigration judges to reject cases, so that migrants who defy a deportation or seek to stay in the country can be arrested when they leave the courtroom to be included in the deportation process.
In Florida last month, Trump said he would agree to a plan proposed by the state governor Ron Desantis to allow members of the National Attorney General (JAG) to act as migration judges at the detention center that was opened in Everglaides, which is called Alcatraz.