Sessions continues to undermine justice for immigrants by tightening his grip on immigration courts
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Campaign Action Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III continues to mold immigration courts, of which he has vast authority over as attorney general, to reflect his racist, anti-immigrant worldview. “In one decision,” CNN reports, “Sessions further constraSessions continues to undermine justice for immigrants by tightening his grip on immigration courts
Campaign Action Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III continues to mold immigration courts, of which he has vast authority over as attorney general, to reflect his racist, anti-immigrant worldview. “In one decision,” CNN reports, “Sessions further constrained the discretion of immigration judges to show leniency to undocumented immigrants. In the other, he signaled he may restrict the ability of immigrants awaiting asylum hearings to be let out of detention.” “Sessions ruled that immigration judges are not allowed to use their discretion to terminate or dismiss cases,” CNN continued. “Under the ruling, only if the Department of Homeland Security decides it no longer wants to pursue the case or the immigrant achieves or proves a legal right to stay in the US can a judge dismiss their deportation case. Judges may not simply decide the case is not worth pursuing further.” Sessions has already taken vast action, by decree, to stomp on asylum claims and possibly return thousands of Central Americans escaping domestic and gang violence back to their deaths. Just days ago, he complained to dozens of incoming immigration judges that immigration courts show too much “sympathy” in decisions, and that immigration attorneys are “like water seeping through an earthen dam.” Sessions, the executive of the Department of Justice, wants no justice. “By placing his thumb firmly on the scales of justice,” said Benjamin Johnson, executive director of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA), “the Attorney General shows a fundamental disregard for immigration courts and judges, and their vital role in the administration of justice. Time and time again the attorney general's actions have shown us that an immigration court system housed under the Department of Justice cannot be one that guarantees due process.” Read more