Waiting my turn in #immigrationcourt as I watch a Biden-appointed imm judge deport the father of an 8 yr old autistic US citizen at the request of a Biden-hired ICE attorney. Meet the new boss, etc
I wandered into this one near the end, but far as I can tell the judge is of the opinion that the man before him did not demonstrate enough "contrition" for prior immigration violations and that the autistic child would not suffer enough upon separation from his father to count
The judge is literally putting on the record that there are plenty of single mothers with autistic kids in the US, and that this man's wife will now be one of them. Just another Thursday in our #immigrationcourts
#childseparation was never anywhere even close to a Trump thing, and I just don't know how else to tell you this
I can't stop thinking about this one. The whole story is a solid argument against allowing judges to hear cases by video honestly, it's just so dehumanizing beyond anything else that happens in immigration court
Seeing some questions in the comments about how ppl can look this case up, and: they can't. Imm court is not an actual judicial body, it's an executive agency w/in DOJ. Its records are available only to the individual non-citizens, their attys, & the govt
But I will say this: if everyone reading this thread went to their local immigration court (esp a detained docket) and tweeted out just one instance of injustice that they saw play out in front of them we might actually get somewhere with any of this, maybe
(And by "the end" i mean the last few minutes of testimony, but the entire oral decision from the judge including extensive factual findings which summarized the case and the court's legal reasoning)
Returning for quick legal context: the application before the court here was for "cancellation of removal," protection from deportation based on "exceptional and extremely ununusual hardship" to a qualifying relative. Harsh standard, but a kid on the spectrum would usually do it 
Before '96 this was merely "extreme hardship" and the non-citizen's own hardship could also be taken into account. This change in the law was voted in by a beloved Delaware Senator intent on working with Rs to pass one of the worst immigration bills of all time
Really buried the lede there didn't I
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