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Immigration Judge Paul Wickham Schmidt spitting hot 🔥🔥🔥 on @DOJ_EOIR dysfunction and mendacity towards migrants and their counsel.

Seriously, everyone on #ImmigrationTwitter should stream this on @LouisianaBar site.

But since they won’t, here are tweets.

Judge Schmidt (retired) offers 12-Step program to fix the deportation railroad:
1. Universal Representation. (System shoots unrepped immigrants in a barrel)
2. Pockets of due process resisting @DOJ_EOIR “overt anti-asylum bias” to discourage rep and deter bona fide applicants.

3. State PSG clearly on record at the outset so BIA can’t screw you on appeal.
4. Ensure PSGs meet criteria. Don’t avoid “women in Guatemala” or “gay men in Honduras”. Abandon gradualism to get govt buy-in. “Jeff Sessions clearly showed in matter of a-b-“ why this doesn’t work.

5. Argue the politics accurately. Gangs in Northern Triangle operate as de facto governments. In El Sal gangs are reportedly largest employer in the country. So use political opinion. Don’t rely on “mealy mouthed, compromised” @StateDept country reports.

6. Document systemic truncations ofdue process in immigration court.

I’m serious folks, he is taking this room to CHURCH.

7. Limit Sessions’ outrageous attempt to turn back 30 years of asylum law. “Vicious and Misogynistic Dicta”. Judge Schmidt points out ARCG was so clearly correct that neither side opposed it at the time.

Point out how Sessions unjustified and biased actions hurt.

8. Apply for bond notwithsfaning M-S- and take the due process issues to federal judges on habeas every time. Keep the defeats comong for DOJ and focus A3 judges on their crap.

9. Appeal everything if you lose below. Get to independent, article 3 courts.

Judge Schmidt refers to Ashcroft Purge of ‘03 (of which he was a victim) and says current facade of judicial process is a dark farce. Says Barr is going to be packed w restrictionist judges and fake.

He is just absolutely EATING BARR ALIVE. Expose these abuses to A3 judges and force them to light.

If the A3 judges don’t start living up to their obligations, they’ll soon have nothing but immigration cases on their dockets.

10. Challenge AG designation on ethical grounds. Cites Judge Tatel’s decision invalidating Gitmo proceedings for lack of appearance of impartiality.

Schmidt explains that Barr and Sessions cannot be neutral adjudicators because they use lies and demonstrably false narratives. Alleges Barr and Sessions acted improperly by acting as quasi-judicial decision makers at the same time as they’re prosecutors.

11. Make a clear record of how the rule of law is mocked by the current system so future A1 Imm court has factual basis.
Make a historical record of intentional constitutional abuse.

12. Fight the Dred Scottification of foreign nationals in our immigration court system. Trying to render them non-persons under the 5th amendment. While non citizens are visible, so too are others on the due process hit list.

“The antidote to malicious incompetence is righteous competence.” Paul W. Schmidt

Dude is dropping such passionate truth bombs.

Join the new due process army.

#PWSchmidt2020

immigrationcourtside.com. Dude needs a twitter account and a patreon page like yesterday.