An investigation into mega master hearings finds the EOIR deliberately piling cases onto specific immigration judges & manipulating the docketing system to manufacture mass deportation orders quickly.
My thought is that they're making mega-master hearings the norm to burn out certain immigration judges, causing them to retire so they can be replaced by "desirable judges" (more likely to remove immigrants than not).
The EOIR "manufactures" removal orders because the illegal aliens never intended to appear for their hearings in the first place. That was the Biden Border Strategy. Open the borders, let aliens claim asylum, release them, give them employment authorization, let them drop anchor babies and work, then never deport them after they failed to appear for a hearing in which they had no cognizable claim of asylum.
I’ll be honest I just did a quick skim so forgive me, but do we know yet how many in absentias have come from these mega-masters? I’ve been in three where at the end the judge just says “I can’t get to everyone you’ll get a notice of the next hearing.” I’m not 100% on this, but 99% certain that they can’t do the in absentias until the end, so if they can’t even get through the represented people then I don’t think they’ve been getting to issue many removal orders.
Interesting data on the judges they are targeting. In the mega-masters I’ve been in the judges have all seemed to be being extra-scrupulous about things. So much so that I almost wondered whether they were doing a 🖕to the management for giving them a hundred fucking cases.
In Seattle one IJ said EOIR was targeting cases where mail had been returned, commonly where the respondent failed to submit an address change. But the Supreme Court held in 2006 in Jones v Flowers had to “do something more” where notice was ineffective like that.
Both comments below are valid, and may be true. Another thought is that EOIR is run by fear and incompetence. The idea of a mega master is hatched on high, then left to senior management to implement with zero input from local courts. Perhaps the goal is not to adjudicate cases fairly and efficiently, rather crash and burn to discredit the court system.
Or they could be loading up the judges who are most inclined to go along with the whole scam and boot people en masse without due process.
I’d like to know about the person (or people) running the EOIR and making the actual assignments. They must have made some statements about how and why they’re doing them this way. Court case assignments are supposed to follow a set procedure that equally assigns cases to all judges in the same rotation on a random basis. (At least that’s how it works in circuit courts; I don’t know about immigration courts.) IMO the assignment pattern you describe is a denial of due process in and of itself.
Carrie, you are very astute. I agree with your first statement. As for your second point, I doubt they have made public statements about anything. There is zero transparency in that agency. The objective data, however, speaks for itself.
My thought is that they're making mega-master hearings the norm to burn out certain immigration judges, causing them to retire so they can be replaced by "desirable judges" (more likely to remove immigrants than not).
The EOIR "manufactures" removal orders because the illegal aliens never intended to appear for their hearings in the first place. That was the Biden Border Strategy. Open the borders, let aliens claim asylum, release them, give them employment authorization, let them drop anchor babies and work, then never deport them after they failed to appear for a hearing in which they had no cognizable claim of asylum.
I’ll be honest I just did a quick skim so forgive me, but do we know yet how many in absentias have come from these mega-masters? I’ve been in three where at the end the judge just says “I can’t get to everyone you’ll get a notice of the next hearing.” I’m not 100% on this, but 99% certain that they can’t do the in absentias until the end, so if they can’t even get through the represented people then I don’t think they’ve been getting to issue many removal orders.
Interesting data on the judges they are targeting. In the mega-masters I’ve been in the judges have all seemed to be being extra-scrupulous about things. So much so that I almost wondered whether they were doing a 🖕to the management for giving them a hundred fucking cases.
East Texas has lost its right to host its own federal courts….it needs to be moved to a blue new england circuit.
In Seattle one IJ said EOIR was targeting cases where mail had been returned, commonly where the respondent failed to submit an address change. But the Supreme Court held in 2006 in Jones v Flowers had to “do something more” where notice was ineffective like that.
Jones was a sheriff’s sale case for unpaid taxes.
Both comments below are valid, and may be true. Another thought is that EOIR is run by fear and incompetence. The idea of a mega master is hatched on high, then left to senior management to implement with zero input from local courts. Perhaps the goal is not to adjudicate cases fairly and efficiently, rather crash and burn to discredit the court system.
Or they could be loading up the judges who are most inclined to go along with the whole scam and boot people en masse without due process.
I’d like to know about the person (or people) running the EOIR and making the actual assignments. They must have made some statements about how and why they’re doing them this way. Court case assignments are supposed to follow a set procedure that equally assigns cases to all judges in the same rotation on a random basis. (At least that’s how it works in circuit courts; I don’t know about immigration courts.) IMO the assignment pattern you describe is a denial of due process in and of itself.
Carrie, you are very astute. I agree with your first statement. As for your second point, I doubt they have made public statements about anything. There is zero transparency in that agency. The objective data, however, speaks for itself.