NYC Bar Association Backs Independent Immigration Courts (Law360)

Law360, November 30, 2018

NYC Bar Association Backs Independent Immigration Courts

“The nation’s immigration courts should operate independently and not as an arm of the U.S. Department of Justice, the New York City Bar Association said Wednesday, also calling for an end to a new quota system for evaluating immigration judges. Immigration judges should have the power to manage their own dockets and be secure in decisions they reach independently, rather than operate as part of the executive branch and the DOJ, the bar association said in a statement. The Trump administration should also rescind a quota system implemented in October that is meant to evaluate immigration judges — who are government employees — in part by the number of cases they complete annually, the association said.”

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