People should read the OIG report about sexual misconduct in the IJ hiring process. The sex stuff wasn’t found to be misconduct but giving an IJ candidate the questions in advance was. I’m posting the redacted report we received through FOIA here. cdn.muckrock.com/foia_files/202…
First, a the report describes senior EOIR employees using “code words” to rate prospective female immigration judge candidates based on how sexually attractive they were. Those men are still employed by EOIR. 
Their code word for a woman they considered very attractive was “smart” or “really smart.” Imagine being interviewed for a high level government job and having your panel refer to you as “smart” only to later find out they were just using their code language to refer to your body
Now have a look at the @JusticeOIG “investigative summary” which supposedly describes this report. It’s the only public record they’ve . And it says absolutely bupkis about the sexual misconduct. oversight.gov/sites/default/…
The piece is long, names names, and is worth paying the $.99 subscription to read. It describes one BIA member who was banned from the building in 2013 for sexual misconduct but has kept his job deciding asylum claims from women who have faced sexual violence.
I still have an appeal pending to try to get those records. I will get them. For now all I have is a letter where a FOIA attorney went out of his way to confirm the story was true, even though he was withholding all of the records.
The investigation by @TalKopan quotes multiple sources who confirmed the banned BIA member was Edward Grant, who is still there hearing appeals from asylum seekers, many of whom fled sexual violence. sfchronicle.com/politics/artic…
The piece says the high level official who used code words in hiring was Print Maggard and that he has been demoted to be an Immigration Judge in Sacramento. So, no longer hiring people, but still deporting people.
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