To immigration judges, the difference between perception and reality doesn’t matter all that much. — — — — — — — — — — — — — -Whether fair to immigrants or not, their courts have long been criticized as suffering from an inherent conflict. The judges’ boss, and the boss of the Immigration and Naturalization Service prosecutors that come before them, is the same person-the attorney general of the United States.
The National Association of Immigration Judges now wants to change that. While maintaining that immigrants are given fair hearings, the union nevertheless revived an old proposal and is asking that immigration courts be removed from the Department of Justice.
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