Scott

🚨BREAKING: The Trump administration has fired 113 immigration judges since last January… without due process, explanation, or stated cause. And this isn’t just unusual… it’s almost unheard of. Immigration judges are typically protected by strict hiring and removal standards, meant to preserve independence in the system. So, seeing this many removed, in such a short time, is raising serious alarms. Jeremiah Johnson, a former immigration judge in San Francisco, told the New York Times: “On Nov. 21, I heard my afternoon case. It was a family of four Indigenous Guatemalans, a mother and father and two children. They were refugees who had suffered physical abuse. The father’s leg had been broken, and his brother had been killed. They were targeted for their race and ethnicity. They had a fear of persecution, based on past persecution, which the government didn’t rebut. I granted them asylum. DHS waived the appeal. My last words on the bench to that family were: You’ve been granted asylum in the United States. That decision is final. Welcome to the United States. One of the kids — I think he was in fifth grade — jumped up and clapped his hands together. Later, I went to my office and signed onto my computer and found out I’d been fired. I was escorted out without time to print the letter they sent.” This is why what the Trump administration is doing has never been about “the worst of the worst” or “doing it the right way.” It’s about who the government believes deserves to be here… and who it decides doesn’t. And when you follow that pattern long enough, it stops looking like isolated decisions, and starts looking like a system built around white supremacy.