From the 12-31-16 edition of Courtside:
Family Detention, Raids, Expediting Cases Fail To Deter Scared Central Americans!
“Immigration advocates have repeatedly criticized the Obama administration for its increased reliance on detention facilities, particularly for Central American families, who they argue should be treated as refugees fleeing violent home countries rather than as priorities for deportation.
They also say that the growing number of apprehended migrants on the border, as reflected in the new Homeland Security figures, indicate that home raids and detentions of families from Central America isn’t working as a deterrent.”
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The “enforcement only” approach to forced migration from Central America has been an extraordinarily expensive total failure. But, the misguided attempt to “prioritize” cases of families seeking refuge from violence has been a major contributing factor in creating docket disfunction (“Aimless Docket Reshuffling”) in the United States Immigration Courts. And, as a result, cases ready for trial that should have been heard as scheduled in Immigration Court have been “orbited” to the end of the docket where it is doubtful they ever will be reached. When political officials, who don’t understand the Immigration Court and are not committed to its due process mission, order the rearrangement of existing dockets without input from the trial judges, lawyers, court administrators, and members of the public who are most affected, only bad things can happen. And, they have!
PWS
12/31/16
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“Aimless Docket Reshuffling” and “deterrence only” remain just as stupid, immoral, inefficient, and counterproductive today. And, politicos’ willful misunderstanding of “forced migration,” its opportunities, and how to respond in a legal, positive, moral, humane, and effective manner continues to roil our politics and diminish our nation.
While, perhaps not surprisingly, policy makers and politicos have “tuned out the truth” presented on Courtside, the New Due Process Army (“NDPA”) has sprung into life and “taken it to” the misguided and short-sighted bureaucrats, politicians, and judges of both parties!
A few “Courtside @ 5” stats, as of 3:30 pm yesterday:
- 373 subscribers;
- 4,563 published posts;
- 714,869 all-time views;
- 1,063 comments;
- 250-300 average readership for Dec. 2021;
- Most views, one day: 2,786, August 17, 2017, lead item: “BREAKING: IN MEMORIAM: HON. JUAN P. OSUNA, LEGENDARY IMMIGRATION FIGURE, DIES SUDDENLY — Was Chairman of BIA, Director of EOIR, High-Ranking DOJ Executive, Editor, Professor — Will Be Remembered As Kind, Gentle, Scholarly, Dedicated!”
- For better or worse, obits and memorials are consistently among the “most viewed” and commented upon items on “Courtside!”
May 2022 bring us wisdom, humanity, compassion, and vast improvement in our treatment of asylum seekers and other immigrants! May “equal justice for all” become a reality in America rather than a cruel, unachieved, broken promise to ourselves and the rest of humanity.
Happy New Year 🥂, and Due Process Forever! 🗽🇺🇸⚖️
PWS
12-31-21