• Limiting opportunities for representation by counsel (counsel increases success rates by at least 4X);
• Using detention in a coercive and punitive way to discourage claims and punish those who pursue them;
• Skewing the law to make gender-based and gang-based claims, which could fairly easily be fitted into the conventional asylum framework, unnecessarily complicated and hard to establish;
• Hiring mostly former prosecutors as Immigration Judges and then sending them a “deny and remove” message through the Attorney General, who unethically and in violation of any common sense concept of Due Process controls the Immigration Courts;
• Failing to provide proper training and guidance to Immigration Judges through precedent decisions on how asylum claims can and should be granted;
• Tolerating Immigration Judges who have shown bias toward asylum seekers and almost never grant asylum;
• Intentionally making asylum law overly legalistic and focused on finding reasons to deny and remove, rather than protect.

One need look no further than two of my recent posts about judges who never grant asylum to see how sick, biased, and unfair the Immigration Court system has become to asylum seekers.

https://immigrationcourtside.com/2019/04/07/podcast-reveals-due-process-disaster-in-immigration-courts-particularly-for-transgender-individuals-deep-seated-problems-existed-this-administration-made-them-w/

https://immigrationcourtside.com/2019/04/04/courts-of-injustice-lawyers-groups-rip-bias-asylum-free-zone-at-el-paso-immigration-court/

And make no mistake — the racist scofflaws who have assumed control of immigration policy under Trump intend to eradicate asylum, the rule of law, and our Constitution. Don’t think that just because you might happen to be a U.S. citizen or even a Trump supporter you will be immune from the destruction of the foundations of our republic and your individual rights. Some day, your turn will also come. Who will defend and speak up for those who have watched the rights and the lives of the vulnerable among us be trampled?