This is a postscript to an article posted here on October 3, 2019.
"With every decision, the judge has to weigh the risk of being fired against the oath of office he or she has taken. And we have already seen the impact of this travesty with the 'Stay in Mexico' or the MPP program, where judges have confided that they have made rulings out of fear of losing their jobs." Hon. A. Ashley Tabaddor, Judge of the Immigration Court and President of the National Association of Immigration Judges, the union of Immigration Judges, quoted by Catherine E. Shoichet, Immigration Judges Accuse Justice Department of Unfair Labor Practices, CNN Politics, posted online on Tuesday, September 27, 2019.
The "administration's so-called Migrant Protection Protocols [MPP] program" is the one "which forces some asylum seekers to wait in Mexico while their cases make their way through the system[.]" Id.
The background behind the headline of this report, that the Immigration Judges are accusing the justice department of Unfair Labor Practices, includes a few things. For one, the department has called for the judges' union to be terminated.
The justice department has sent the judges anti-Semitic stories as a part of the briefing they send to these judges.
The department has also imposed "case competition quotas and the removal of [immigration judges'] power to administratively close cases." Id.
When judges are afraid that their rulings will get them fired then perhaps unfair labor practices, while real issues, are the tips of a much larger iceberg.
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