On this day in May 2018, then-U.S. Attorney General Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III stepped in front of cameras and assembled press to formally announce that it would be the official policy of the United States to tear children, including nursing infants and toddlers, from the arms of parents seeking...
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A judge has ordered former Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen and former Attorney General Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III to testify in a lawsuit filed by families separated at the southern border, The Washington Post reports. The two former Trump officials were instrumental in the planning and implementation...
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Desperate for a hot-button dog-whistle, Republicans reach for a wedge issue that has lost its edge Republicans are busy signaling their intention to run hard on nativism during the 2022 midterms. For example: Stephen Miller told The Washington Post last week that Republicans should make the 2022 midterms all...
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Jul 15, 2020
Frank Sharry on the end of the road for Jeff Sessions The following is a statement from Frank Sharry, Executive Director of America’s Voice: “Jefferson Beauregard Sessions is no longer a force in American politics. He rose to prominence with the rise of Donald Trump, became the nation’s Attorney...
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Using a uniquely broad authority – certification – to unilaterally reconsider cases already reviewed by non-politically appointed judges and the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA), Attorney General Sessions issued a decision yesterday that once again limits the independence of immigration judges by narrowing the circumstances under which they may...
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It’s Time for an Independent Immigration Court Yesterday, Attorney General Sessions welcomed 44 new immigration judges with an ominous warning: “Immigration Judges conduct designated proceedings ‘subject to such supervision and shall perform such duties as the Attorney General shall prescribe.’” In other words, Sessions reminded immigration judges that...
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“Death penalty cases in a traffic court setting,” is how Dana Leigh Marks, emeritus President of National Association of Immigration Judges, once described immigration court, an assessment emphasizing the lack of justice that can be found in the immigration court system. The problems facing this court system are numerous...
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In his latest column for Huffpost, America’s Voice Communications Manager and DACA-recipient Juan Escalante calls out Attorney General Jeff Sessions and the Trump administration for their attempts to bend the judiciary to their own xenophobic purposes. Escalante’s piece is excerpted below and available in full here. President Donald Trump’s...
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It’s Time for an Independent Immigration Court On Tuesday, Tal Kopan of CNN reported that an immigration judge assigned to a case for many years was replaced with another judge from Washington who quickly and with little process ordered the deportation of an immigrant. Kopan explains: The unusual use...
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Since at least April of this year, Attorney General Jeff Sessions has been out across the country giving speeches that are helping to lay the foundation for an anti-immigrant political strategy in the 2018 midterms. Republicans have already made it clear that this is what they will run on...
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