⚖️🗽👩🏽‍⚖️👨🏼‍⚖️👨🏾‍⚖️👩‍⚖️ NDPA ALERT: BECOME A U.S. IMMIGRATION JUDGE: Use Your Hard-Earned Knowledge & Practical, “Real Life” Experience To Save Lives, Model Best Judicial Practices, Change Culture, Inspire, & Teach Others! — Applying Is The Essential First Step To Selection!

I want you
Don’t just complain about the awful mess @ EOIR! Get on the bench and do something about it!
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From Dan Kowalski @ LexisNexis:

Good morning Dan,

I am writing to let you know that the U.S. Department of Justice, Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR), is looking to hire additional immigration judges. I wanted to provide the following information in the event it might be useful to Bender’s Immigration Bulletin subscribers and others who may wish to learn about the immigration judge career path. Could you please provide this information to anyone who you think may be interested?

 

  1. Sign up to attend a Recruitment Outreach Session – on March 23 and on March 30, sign up to attend a live webinar, where we’ll be explaining how to become an immigration judge. The hour-long sessions are moderated by assistant chief immigration judges, with time for Q&A at the end.
  2. 2.The next immigration judge job opportunity announcement is scheduled to open in early April. Individuals may receive a notification when the announcement is posted on USAJOBS, by signing up for EOIR’s Adjudicators Announcement listserv: U.S. Department of Justice (govdelivery.com).
  3. 3.For more information on the immigration judge career path, benefits, qualifications, etc., please visit our EOIR Careers webpage.

 

Thank you so much for your attention and support as we work to hire additional immigration judges.

 

Kathryn

 

Kathryn Mattingly

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Assistant Press Secretary

Communications and Legislative Affairs Division

Executive Office for Immigration Review

U.S. Department of Justice

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It’s very encouraging to see EOIR now doing some “affirmative recruiting” to widen and improve the selection pool for these important “life or death” positions. It’s YOUR chance to promote and deliver due process at the most important level of our justice system — the “retail level!” That’s where “the rubber meets the road” (or continues to have “flat tires” as is now the case throughout the Federal Judiciary at all levels.)

I seldom attend any professional gathering these days without being bombarded with “horror stories” and angry complaints about the poor quality of judging, lack of understanding, and absence of practical problem solving skills at all levels of EOIR. NDPAers, this is OUR chance to do more than “just complain” (particularly to me, since I’m not in charge of anything) by improving and diversifying the system “from the ground up,” institutionalizing better interpretations, great applications of law, and best practices in the process!

I also have a vision that at some point in history, a more “with it” Administration that actually understands the cosmic importance of immigration and human rights, takes Constitutional Due Process seriously, has some guts, and views all human lives as mattering, will use the Immigration Courts as a “natural pool” for better Article III judicial appointments. 

Additionally, when Article I eventually happens, there inevitably will be some type of “grandfathering” of existing IJs. WHO would YOU like to see “grandfathered” into a new independent system? All of the current incumbents, or a more diverse group including many practical scholars and fearless due process mavens?

As my good friend and neighbor, Professor Alberto Benitez of the GW Law Immigration Clinic always says, “The world is yours!”

Go for it!

🇺🇸 Due Process Forever!

PWS

03-23-23

👩🏽‍⚖️NEW IJ’s? — Garland Reportedly Has Appointed More Judges, Including Some Well-Qualified Individuals, Subject Matter Experts With Backgrounds Representing Asylum Seekers & Other Migrants  — When Will EOIR Get Around To Announcing It?

Perhaps, the EOIR Public Information Office is too busy tracking down tweets critical of “the agency.” That could take an army of “monitors!” First things first at EOIR, I guess!

 Stay tuned!

🇺🇸Due Process Forever!

PWS

02-12-21

NEW JUDICIAL APPOINTMENT: JUDGE JAMES M. McCARTHY JOINS U.S. IMMIGRATION COURT IN NEW YORK

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Thursday, July 13, 2017

Executive Office for Immigration Review Swears in Immigration Judge

FALLS CHURCH, VA – The Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) today announced the investiture of a new immigration judge. Chief Immigration Judge MaryBeth Keller presided over the investiture during a ceremony held this afternoon at EOIR headquarters in Falls Church, Va.

After a thorough application process, Attorney General Jeff Sessions appointed James M. McCarthy to his new position.

“We welcome Judge McCarthy to the ranks of immigration judges at EOIR,” said Acting Director James McHenry. “EOIR is committed to reducing its significant pending caseload, and Judge McCarthy’s presence augments our ability to do that in one of our highest-volume courts.”

Biographical information follows.

James M. McCarthy, Immigration Judge, New York City Immigration Court

Attorney General Jeff Sessions appointed James M. McCarthy to begin hearing cases in July 2017. Judge McCarthy earned a Bachelor of Science degree in 1983 from St. John’s University and a Juris Doctor in 1995 from Brooklyn Law School. From 2014 to 2017, he served as a senior attorney for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Department of Homeland Security (DHS), in New York, N.Y. From 2011 to 2014, he served as a deputy chief counsel for the Office of Chief Counsel, ICE, DHS, also in New York. From 2009 to 2011, he served as a senior attorney for ICE, DHS, in Eloy, Ariz. From 2004 to 2009, he served as an assistant chief counsel for ICE, DHS, in Eloy and Florence, Ariz. From 2000 to 2004, he served as an examining attorney for the Mayoral Commission to Combat Police Corruption, New York City Department of Investigations. From 1995 to 2000, he served as an assistant district attorney, and later as a senior assistant district attorney, at the Kings County District Attorney’s Office, in Brooklyn, N.Y. Judge McCarthy is a member of the New York State Bar.

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Congratulations and good luck to Judge McCarthy.

PWS

08-04-17