The Trump administration is moving to fast-track cases in immigration court by allowing judges to drop “legally deficient asylum cases without a hearing.”
The change in policy was laid out in an April 11 memo sent to staff at the Executive Office for Immigration Review, a part of the Justice Department that decides who can be deported from the U.S.
The directive could result in immigration judges determining someone is not eligible for asylum without a hearing, based solely on what is filed on a lengthy and complex asylum request form.
The memo comes as the Trump administration is seeking to arrest and deport more people without permanent legal status in the U.S. But the immigration court system has faced a growing backlog of cases, and experts argue it has gone underfunded and under-resourced for years.
The faster he accelerates authoritarianism, the more afraid he is of his collapse
Trains aren’t running on time.
I want to be clear that we need to keep fighting, but
Something tells me this authoritarian train doesn’t have much gas left in it
We absolutely needs to fight. He can only get more power if we surrender it (through being scared or apathy) and once he has it, it will be much harder to get it back.
I hope you’re right
Another assault on due process.
“The late great Hannibal Lecter…”
Everyone— “wut?”
