A US army reserve lawyer detailed as a federal immigration judge has been fired barely a month into the job after granting asylum at a high rate out of step with the Trump administration’s mass deportation goals, the Associated Press has learned.
Christopher Day began hearing cases in late October as a temporary judge at the immigration court in Annandale, Virginia. He was fired around 2 December, the National Association of Immigration Judges confirmed.
It is unclear why Day was fired. He did not comment when contacted by the AP, and a justice department spokesperson declined to discuss personnel matters.
But federal data from November shows he ruled on asylum cases in ways at odds with the Trump administration’s stated goals.
Of the 11 cases he concluded in November, he granted asylum or some other type of relief allowing the migrant to remain in the United States a total of six times, according to federal data analyzed by Mobile Pathways, a San Francisco-based non-profit.
This is hilarious because the whole reason why the Trump administration appointed military lawyers as immigration judges was to deny more amnesty cases. The idea being that because they’re also soldiers, they must have less compassion and are less likely to believe immigrants are in danger if they return to their country of origin.
Turns out that because military lawyers have seen more of the world’s dangerous places than your typical immigration judge, they’re much more likely to believe that any given immigrant is telling the truth about their home country being dangerous.
Unless they’re Ron DeSatan, of course.
It just makes too much sense. You can’t have someone with even an ounce of compassion within this administration; it goes against everything they believe in.
The suffering is the point. They’re petty and cruel people. They feel better about their own pathetic lives by making others hurt.
I’m glad to see my Army folks doing the right thing
This is why immigration judges aren’t real judges and should be abolished.
