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Judges and Judiciary,
Immigration

Jul. 19, 2018

The dismantling of due process in immigration courts

What if criminal court judges answered to the prosecutor, and the prosecutor could evaluate the judges’ job performance based on their conviction rate and speed? This is the reality in immigration court.

Amie D. Miller

Email: amiller@immigrate-us.net

Amie practices immigration law at the Law Office of Amie D. Miller. She is certified by the State Bar of California as a Specialist in Immigration & Nationality Law.

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The dismantling of due process in immigration courts
Judge Dana Marks, near the immigration court building in San Francisco, Aug. 31, 2016. Marks often comments that immigration judges "are conducting death penalty cases in a traffic court setting." (Shutterstock)

Immigration is a headline topic. Separating families, detaining young children, eliminating asylum relief -- they all spotlight a humanitarian crisis and troubling trend at our border.

An important immigration story not in the headlines, though, is the systematic dismantling of due process in the immigration court system.

Guarantee of Due process

The U.S. C...

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