Immigration judges say they're leaving jobs because of Trump policies

[highplainsdem]

Source: The Hill

Immigration judges are reportedly leaving their roles or anticipating their departures citing sweeping changes to the court under Trump administration policies, BuzzFeed News reported Wednesday.

Judges told the outlet that they and their colleagues are departing their posts due to concerns about their jobs becoming politicized, as well as the increasing backlog driven in part by the administration's policies ending immigration judges' ability to indefinitely suspend certain cases and new restrictions on when asylum can be granted.

BuzzFeed reported that the case backlog for immigration judges has reached more than 800,000 under the Trump administration, while wait times have reached hundreds of days.

“It has become so emotionally brutal and exhausting that many people I know are leaving or talking about finding an exit strategy,” one judge told the news outlet. “Morale has never, ever been lower.”

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Read more: https://thehill.com/latino/429940-immigration-judges-say-theyre-leaving-jobs-because-of-trump-policies

[badhair77]

1. Will he replace them with people who will turn everyone away,

or torture people with prolonged detention. None of this ends well. I totally understand their desire to leave those positions.

[bdamomma]

2. This is horrible

those judges who are leaving could be replaced with ring wing and with no experience judges. Also this is Stephen Miller's top project to stop people from coming into the US esp. those who are seeking asylum.

they are tearing apart this country from within it's a conspiracy with the strings being pulled by Putin and his puppet tRump.

[Arazi]

3. Deliberate

[watoos]

4. They are penning people up,

on the Mexican side of the border. It appears that conditions there are even worse than on the U.S. side.

[2naSalit]

5. Remeber all the

conspiracy theories about FEMA concentration camps? Especially while Obama was in office? Well I guess there is some form of that and look what they're doing with them. When they run out of immigrants, then what?

[Cold War Spook]

6. I would hope that they would stay

and find in favor of all the immigrants. Illegal immigrants whether found by ICE or not must be told about their rights.