Factotum = a servant, retainer – a person working in the service of another (particularly in the household)
Here’s the memo — demeaning and insulting U.S. Immigration Judges in exactly the way that Sessions intended:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/9h1k4942zcomwku/Castro%20Tum%20OPLA%20guidance.pdf?dl=0
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Bottom line: “Sessions made it clear that we at ICE control the Immigration Judges, their dockets, and their priorities. If they get out of line, report ’em. We’ll all working on the “Trump/Sessions Deportation Express.” And we at ICE are the Conductors. The “Judges” are just porters to carry our baggage.
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Talk about feckless!
I think that it’s critical that advocates work documents like this into their Article III briefs and arguments. It’s important to let “real” judges know that notwithstanding fancy titles and outward appearances, the “Immigration Court” is not a real independent court system that can be expected to provide Due Process, or even care about it on a systemic basis, for that matter.
It’s a “captive” of Chief Child Abuser Jeff Sessions who has directed it to carry out his prosecutorial (and overall racist) program of dehumanization and bias against the most vulnerable and defenseless among us. In no way, shape, or form, can a court system selected, directed, and evaluated by Jeff Sessions and his biased minions be considered to provide the “fair and impartial adjudication” required by the Due Process Clause. Article III Judges must be (politely) confronted with their own complicity when they approve any removal order entered by this inherently corrupt, unethical, and unfair system.
Yes, there are many dedicated and conscientious Immigration Judges out there. But, they have been ordered to carry out Sessions’s enforcement vendetta, stripped of all meaningful authority to control their dockets, and told they are being watched to make sure they are “with the program” — which in Sessions’s own words is all about “volume” – not fairness, not quality, not scholarship, not empathy, not human understanding, not respect — nope “volume” which has nothing whatsoever to do with individual justice. How would you like to trust your life to a judge working under those conditions.
Almost every day, Jeff Sessions provides clear public evidence of his bias and total unsuitability for any public office, let along one purporting to run a “court system.”
PWS
06-18-18