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Title: [Alberto Gonzales (Bush) Tells] Courts told to be nicer to immigrants [Calls Judges Abusive]
Source:
CNN
URL Source: http://www.cnn.com/2006/LAW/01/10/immigration.letter/index.html
Published: Jan 11, 2006
Author: Staff
Post Date: 2006-01-11 02:45:36 by OKCSubmariner
Keywords: immigrants, [Alberto, Gonzales
Views: 173
Comments: 9
Gonzales calls some immigration judges 'abusive,' orders review WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Saying judges have been "intemperate or even abusive," Attorney General Alberto Gonzales on Tuesday ordered a review of immigration courts and insisted that they improve their treatment of immigrants. Gonzales did not say what prompted his sharply worded memo. However, aides said internal information and media reports prompted the unusual admonition of employees. "I have watched with concern the reports of immigration judges who fail to treat aliens appearing before them with appropriate respect and consideration, and who fail to produce the quality of work that I expect from employees of the Department of Justice," Gonzales wrote. Justice Department officials say critical press reports were one of many factors that prompted the memo. A recent account in The New York Times quoted a federal appeals court ruling that claimed circuit judges continuously had to rebuke immigration judges for their "intemperate and humiliating remarks." A federal appeals court in Chicago concluded in November that handling of immigration cases had "fallen below the minimum standards of legal justice." A Justice Department official insisted that such problems represent only a fraction of cases appealed from immigration courts, and Gonzales was quick to emphasize that he wasn't painting all immigration judges with the same brush. "While I remain convinced that most immigration judges ably and professionally discharge their difficult duties, I believe there are some whose conduct can aptly be described as intemperate or even abusive and whose work must improve," Gonzales said. The attorney general wrote an almost identical memo to members of the Board of Immigration Appeals, saying he instructed acting Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty and Associate Attorney General Robert McCallum to conduct a comprehensive review of immigration courts. "I have requested that the review include the quality of work as well as the manner in which it is performed," Gonzales wrote. Deborah Notkin, president of the American Immigration Lawyers Association, commended Gonzales for ordering the review. Immigration lawyers have had "deep and long-standing concerns about the functioning of the immigration courts and the behavior of the immigration judges," she said in a written statement. "Increasingly, courts are reversing immigration decisions due to seriously flawed immigration judge decisions."
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#1. To: lodwick, Uncle Bill, Fred Mertz, Zipporah, swarthyguy, lodwick, itisalmosttoolate, Sparker, scooter, TommyTheMadArtist, honway, robin, christine, Neil McIver, Sparker, valis, aristeides, Kamala, buckeroo, A K A Stone, Dakmar, AllTheKingsHorsesWontDoIt (#0)
Seems like Bush and Chertoff really do not mean it when they say they are going to get tougher on illegal immigration. Alberto Gonzales is a strong member of LaRaza and supports the North American Union promoted by the CFR, GW BUSH, world government advocates and championed in House Bill HR 2762 by Katerine Harris.
Let me go out and commit a felony and see how well I'm received in a court of law. Let ME as an American Citizen go to another country without having any kind of legal means of being there or staying there, and see how well I'm treated. Let me go work illegally in another country, and watch the wheels of justice take their turn on me, and then compare it to what OUR so called leadership is doing. I can tell you definitively, we have had nothing but a series of traitors to America lining their pockets while in office, since well before the Civil War. The practice of destroying America really didn't get rolling until after the First World War, and has only picked up pace since the traitor children of the so called "Greatest" generation took control. YOU CANNOT TRUST ANYONE IN GOVERNMENT TO REPRESENT YOUR INTERESTS. NOT ONE.
#2. To: OKCSubmariner (#1)
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#3. To: OKCSubmariner (#0)
the stupid people who vote republican (or democrat)!!!! there are a lot of idiots who think they're voting for less immigration by voting republican. in my state there is a clown named JD Hayworth (Congressman) who is held up as anti-immigration. But this guy's been in congress for over 15 years and has a very strong pro-immigration voting record. It's a fraud.
#4. To: OKCSubmariner (#0)
This from TORTURE BOY?! That's rich.
"I have watched with concern the reports of immigration judges who fail to treat aliens appearing before them with appropriate respect and consideration
If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
~James Madison
#5. To: OKCSubmariner (#1)
Seems like Bush and Chertoff really do not mean it when they say they are going to get tougher on illegal immigration. Probably not, but we knew that already. Something is going on behind the scenes that makes them be nice to illegals. On the other hand, it's easy to believe that the problem exists. It's just that it's not limited to immigration courts. I've witnessed some highly humilitating comments by a judge in Baltimore. Judge Nance was his name, if I remember right.
#6. To: OKCSubmariner (#0)
I wish someone would immigrate his ass back to chasing ambulances or whatever pursuit in life he could find in the Dreaded Private Sector.
#7. To: OKCSubmariner (#1)
Is LaRaza actually a group, like Mecha, or is just what these nuts call themselves these days?
#8. To: mehitable (#7)
LaRaza ('the race') is not only a real group; they are being subsidized with YOUR tax dollars. You imagine the outrage if Americans had discovered we were financing the Japanese or the Germans back in the 40's? (Well, yes...some Americans were doing business with the nazis, but that's another story...)
#9. To: OKCSubmariner (#1)
Gonzales considers himself Mexican first it seems.. there was an interesting quote by him about his Mexican roots but Im unable to locate it..
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