Friday, August 17, 2018

Deportation Nation, Con't

Attorney General Jeff Sessions continues to remove as much judicial oversight and due process as he can from deportation proceedings in order to speed up the Trump regime's inevitable mass deportation scenario.

U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Thursday sought to speed up the deportation of illegal immigrants, telling immigration judges they should only postpone cases in removal proceedings “for good cause shown.”

Sessions, in an interim order that was criticized by some lawyers, said the “good-cause” standard “limits the discretion of immigration judges and prohibits them from granting continuances for any reason or no reason at all.”

Unlike the federal judiciary system, U.S. immigration courts fall under the Department of Justice and the attorney general can intervene. Sessions, a Republican former U.S. Senator appointed by President Donald Trump, has been unusually active in this practice compared to his predecessors.

Sessions has led efforts by the Trump administration to crack down on illegal immigration, including a “zero tolerance” policy that separated immigrant parents from their children while they were in U.S. detention. Trump abandoned the separation policy in June under political pressure.

Critical in showing “good cause” is whether a person is likely to succeed in efforts to remain in the United States, either by appealing for asylum or receiving some form of visa or work permit, Sessions said on Thursday.

Stephen Kang, an attorney with the ACLU immigrants rights project, described Sessions’ order as “troubling” and one of a series that “has moved in the direction of restricting due process rights for individuals who are in removal proceedings.”

Kang said Sessions seemed to portray immigrants seeking more time to prepare their cases as trying to “game the system and avoid deportation.”

Kang said removal proceedings were complex and people needed time “both to get lawyers to ensure that their due process rights are protected and time just to make sure their cases get a fair hearing.”

Sessions doesn't want fair hearings or due process or any of that.  He wants deportations of people deemed undesirable by the Trump regime.  And if you think for a second that this will be limited to just "illegal immigrants" you haven't been paying attention to the regime's stated plans this year to remove due process, end legal immigration, denaturalize immigrant citizens and revoke their citizenship, discharging immigrants who served this country to earn citizenship, turn ICE and the Border Patrol into intelligence agencies, sue states and cities over sanctuary laws, turn the 2020 Census into a tool to hunt the undocumented and harm blue states with large immigrant populations, separate immigrant children from their parents and keeping them in detention camps, all but end refugee settlement programs, and revoke green cards for those who get on social safety programs.

It will not be long before the regime starts applying these tactics to citizens of the US who are critics. We cheerfully call them "dissidents" in other countries, people locked up by autocratic regimes for "crimes against the government".  We're not that far away from having our own dissidents rounded up here in America.  As I said two months ago, we're at a hard six, heading for seven in the ten statges of genocide.

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