By Ramsey Judah
The appointment of judges in the United States is governed by Article II, Section 2 of the Constitution, which states that the President nominates judges, and they must be confirmed by the Senate. This process is supposed to ensure a system of checks and balances between the executive and legislative branches regarding judicial appointments.
But when it comes to Immigration Judges, the President has complete power as to who gets hired and who gets fired. There is no Congressional mechanism where Congress can step in to vet the judges and approve their nominations. And Trump is taking full advantage of this by firing all the judges who have, at the very least, mediocre asylum approval rates and inserting judges who are going to do what the regime says.
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Before Trump even thought about running for president over a decade ago, the rates for asylum approvals were not high by any means. In fact, out of all industrially advanced nations in the world, the United States actually has one of the lowest rates of asylum approvals. It not a coincidence that approvals are really low, it was designed this way in order to ensure that a “white” majority continues to be the majority group in the country.
But now, no matter how hard one works for their clients as a legal practitioner, and no matter how great of a case they may have for asylum, the chances of being denied are astronomically higher than it was before. And it is because all the good and fair judges have been replaced with “yes people” who only take orders from the Executive.
This is no longer a legal system, but a system of acquiescence to the ruling regime, which is exactly how systems by dictatorships and tyrants act worldwide.
Are we going to have to push more immigration matters on real federal courts to get true decisions and justice? Federal courts are already slammed with habeas cases nationwide to get unlawfully detained people out of immigration concentration camps. I know there are simpletons who will say undocumented people are “breaking the law” and “when you break the law you go to jail.” But if they are breaking the law, why aren’t they being criminally tried for it? I’ll give you a hint: BECAUSE IMMIGRATION IS A CIVIL MATTER YOU RETARDS.
Congress really needs to reassess how immigration courts work. Otherwise the immigration court system will become a complete failure and lawyers will rush to federal courts, where judges have to abide by the Constitution, to get the relief that they should have been received in immigration courts.
This can all be prevented by Congress passing a bill that will reorganize how immigration judges are chosen. It should be a similar mechanism as to how federal judges are chosen. But without some sort of check on the Executive, Congress is allowing tyranny to take hold in a very important part of our legal system, which could be nefariously used a precedent for the rest of our legal system.
Ramsey Judah is the founder of the Judah Law Group and can be reached at ramsey@JudahLawGroup.com.