Trump Administration Moves to Decertify Outspoken Immigration Judges' Union

[Eugene]

Source: New York Times

Trump Administration Moves to Decertify Outspoken Immigration Judges’ Union

By Christina Goldbaum
Aug. 10, 2019

The Justice Department has moved to decertify the union of immigration judges, a maneuver that could muffle an organization whose members have sometimes been openly critical of the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement agenda.

The department filed a petition on Friday asking the Federal Labor Relations Authority to determine whether the union, the National Association of Immigration Judges, should have its certification revoked because its members are considered “management officials” ineligible to collectively organize, according to a Justice Department spokesman.

The move suggested escalating tensions between overwhelmed immigration judges desperate for greater resources and a Justice Department pushing them to quickly address a backlog of immigration cases.

“This is a misguided effort to minimize our impact,” said Judge Amiena Khan, vice president of the judges’ union, which has publicly criticized the use of a quota system in immigration court and other attempts to speed up proceedings.

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Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/10/us/immigration-judges-union-justice-department.html

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1. Republicans don't hesitate to decertify government Unions that give them trouble.

Reagan decertified and broke the Air Controller's Union and today air controller seem to still vote republican.

If our President used similar tactics against ICE and the Border Patrol, the President can fire them all (as Reagan did) and hire new people. In theory, that would allow a democratic President to clean up those unions in one shot. But our President would never decertify a problem Union and hire hopefully better people, maybe it is time to change that for Border Patrol and ICE.

[CrispyQ]

2. I give our republic about a 25% chance of surviving Trump/Barr/McConnell -nt

[hedda_foil]

3. I hope you're not being overly optimistic.

[canetoad]

4. Long but worthwhile article

Drawing parallels between US & Rome.

http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/08/is-there-hope-for-the-american-republic-after-trump.html

[hedda_foil]

7. Thank you, canetoad. I've been pondering this very resemblance for a few days now.

Sullivan's piece should be required reading for all Americans.

[sakabatou]

5. WTF?!

[Sunsky]

6. Seems very democratic to me

or maybe I should say Russianesque.