May 3, 2018 • Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced on Wednesday that 35 more prosecutors and 18
more immigration judges will be rushed to the southwest border with Mexico to handle immigration cases.
«We need
more immigration judges, we need more immigration personnel at the border so that we can swiftly resolve these cases before children find their way to detention facilities and to other facilities as far away as New York.»
Attorney General Jeff Sessions called the caravan «a deliberate attempt to undermine our laws and overwhelm our system,» pledging to send
more immigration judges to the border to resolve cases if needed.
Not exact matches
CITY HALL — The court system's administrative office and its chief
judge need to act swiftly — and be
more bold — in establishing a plan to protect New Yorkers from courthouse interference from federal
immigration agents, elected officials and activists said Thursday.
The court's conservative justices said they were inclined to reverse a 9th Circuit Court decision requiring
immigration judges to give a bond hearing and consider possible release for noncitizens who have been jailed for
more than six months, while the liberal justices sounded unsure as to whether a specific time limit can be upheld.
Previous: Sessions sends
more prosecutors, supervisory
judges to border to handle
immigration cases
Indeed, the Ninth Circuit case discussed here provides a good example of how much
more lenient a sentencing
judge wanted to be in an
immigration case if the guidelines had not served as a legal limit on leniency.
Members have long been known for appearing in landmark decisions in complex discrimination and equality cases, from Seymour - Smith through to
more recent cases such as O'Brien v Ministry of Justice and Council of
Immigration Judges (where Monckton members appeared on both sides).
For
more information about the ongoing litigation in O'Brien v Ministry of Justice and Council of
Immigration Judges, please click here.
Third, the Court's rigid constitutional rule could inadvertently head off
more promising ways of addressing the underlying problem — such as statutory or administrative reforms requiring trial
judges to inform a defendant on the record that a guilty plea may carry adverse
immigration consequences.
In a post where he appears to reveal
more than his opinion of the numbers, Volokh writes, «This isn't some liberal
judge on the Ninth Circuit slamming the
immigration bureaucracy — it's a moderate conservative, citing many opinions from the Seventh Circuit (which has a reputation as being pretty sane).