Congress will hold a hearing today to discuss the possibility of creating an independent immigration court system. Here’s the historical and contemporary context you need to know to make sense of the hearing. The history of the immigration court’s lack of independence goes back to (at least) the late 1940s when the Supreme Court took up the question of whether the Administrative Procedures Act (APA, passed in 1946) applied in deportation cases.
Thanks for this information and for the hearing link. This has been a long time coming!