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⚖️👨🏻‍⚖️👩🏽‍⚖️ GARLAND APPOINTS 39 NEW IJS — GOV. ATTORNEYS PREDOMINATE!

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Attorney General Merrick B. Garland
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Attorney General Merrick Garland announced the appointment of 39 new Immigration Judges to EOIR. In somewhat of a “return to the past,” attorneys with primarily government backgrounds and judges from non-immigration systems predominated.

My “quick and dirty” analysis came up with the following groupings:

NGOs = 4

Immigration Private Practice = 9

Retired IJs = 2

DHS/EOIR = 10

Other Gov. = 8

Other Judicial = 5

Other Private Practice = 1

Among the names that stand out for me personally:

Judge Florence Chamberlain, San Francisco Immigration Court — Previously Managing Director, Northern Division, Ciudad Juarez, Kids In Need of Defense (“KIND”)

Judge Kevin Chapman, Atlanta Immigration Court — Previously Retired Immigration Judge, Orlando Immigration Court, previously Acting General Counsel and Deputy General Counsel EOIR

Judge Allison Daw, Sacramento Immigration Court — Previously Retired Immigration Judge Los Angeles & San Francisco Immigration Courts and former Member of the Round Table

Judge Enrique Holguin, El Paso Immigration Court — Previously Managing Attorney, Diocesan Immigrant & Refugee Services of El Paso

Judge June K. Lee, Hyattsville Immigration Court — Previously Director, Immigrants’ Rights Legal Services Project at Legal Aid D.C.

Judge Dianna Michelle Martinez Soler, New York (Broadway) Immigration Court — Previously Legal Director at Central American Legal Assistance (“CALA”), Brooklyn, NY

Judge Elizabeth Kohler Maya, Baltimore Immigration Court — Previously Managing Partner, Bromberg, Kohler Maya & Petre LLC, who appeared before me at the “Legacy” Arlington Immigration Court

Judge Anam Rahman Petit, Annandale Immigration Court — Previously Partner, Calderon Seguin PLC, Fairfax, VA, who appeared before me at the “Legacy” Arlington Immigration Court

Judge Susana Reyes, Seattle Immigration Court — Previously long-time private immigration practitioner, Dallas TX

Judge Tyler “Tiger” Wood, Denver Immigration Court — Previously Assistant Chief Counsel for ICE in Denver and Arlington where he appeared extensively in my court

Bios of these and all of the other newly appointed judges are here:

https://www.justice.gov/d9/2023-11/notice_eoir_announces_39_new_immigration_judges_11072023.pdf

Congrats and good luck to all the new judges! Remember, there’s only one real job at EOIR: Guaranteeing fairness and due process for all! 

🇺🇸 Due Process Forever!

PWS

11-07-23

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🇺🇸JULY 4, 2022 — AMERICAN DEMOCRACY IS AT A CROSSROADS ⤲ — But, There Is A Bit Of Encouraging News 😎About An Upcoming Appointment To the Immigration Court!

 

No, one appointment can’t fix a broken system! And, there are still far, far too many “90% deniers” on the Immigration Bench! 

Additionally, the BIA keeps churning out just about everything but badly needed and long overdue precedents making the legally appropriate and more generous version of asylum promoted by the Biden Administration during their election campaign a reality. That logically should have followed on the heels of Garland’s decisions to vacate some of the very worst and most legally incorrect Trump-era precedents. 

Certainly, justice has been harmed by Garland’s failure to “clean house” at the BIA and to bring in asylum experts who would aggressively issue positive asylum precedents while making sure that “deny ‘em all” IJs either got the message or got off the bench! 

But, I have learned that later this month, one of the finest legal minds in America will be assuming an appointment as a U.S. Immigration Judge. It’s a tough assignment right now, but an opportunity to save some lives, teach others from the bench, and “model” the type of Federal Judiciary for the future that Garland should already be showcasing at EOIR.

I always appreciate it when “the best and the brightest” apply for these cosmically important Immigration Judge position at both the trial and appellate levels. Never has their country needed them and their skills more. 

I am also gratified when Garland actually picks at least some of the best and most talented for these jobs. Clearly, that that hasn’t always been the case in the past under Administrations of both parties, as the current meltdown and dysfunction at EOIR with lives and futures at stake shows. Let’s hope it is the wave of the future!

🇺🇸Happy July 4, & Due Process Forever!

PWS

07-04-22

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