Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III’s war on immigrants rages on, with America’s most racist Keebler elf now tinkering in the court system to challenge the discretion of immigration judges in his attempt to speed up the Trump administration’s deportation assembly line:
Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Friday launched a review of a little-known but widely used practice of immigration judges closing cases without decisions, potentially putting hundreds of thousands of people in greater legal limbo.
Sessions posed detailed questions challenging the use of "administrative closures," an increasingly common outcome that allows people to stay in the country without legal status. The attorney general invited feedback from advocates and others, after which time he may issue new instructions for immigration judges nationwide.
Administrative closures have been a lifeline to immigrants who apply for citizenship, permanent residency or other visas, shielding them from deportation while their petitions are vetted. But critics say judges too often let people stay in the country longer than they should in a sort of legal purgatory.
Sessions intervened Friday in the case of Reynaldo Castro-Tum, who arrived from Guatemala as a child in 2014. Sessions asked what authority judges have to issue administrative closures and whether he should end the process altogether. The rule change is now subject to public comment before Sessions makes his final decision.
Immigrants trying to find avenues to seek legal status and stay in the U.S. can’t have that, right? In fact “the decision to review the procedure could potentially reopen 350,000 cases that are currently closed due to the practice, according to the AP.” With these guys, it’s never been about streamlining our broken immigration system. It’s been about trumping the legal system and getting as many immigrants out as possible.