The Trump regime has made a practice of firing qualified immigration judges and replacing them with loyalists who will follow Trump (and Stephen Miller's) ideological dictates. These types of judges are directly appointed and go through none of the usual vetting processes.
The most recent example, here in Minnesota, is a man named Nathan Hansen. Minnesota Reformer tells us about Hansen's extreme history and, essentially, anti-qualifications for the job:
Hansen’s extensive social media history contains posts endorsing popular but widely debunked right-wing conspiracies including Pizzagate and Obama birtherism, to which President Donald Trump also subscribes. In 2024, he amplified posts about the “Haitian invasion of Ohio,” a racist conspiracy pushed by Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance that accused Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, of eating family pets.
More recently, Hansen called for Minnesota State Rep. Brad Tabke (D-Shakopee) to be jailed for filming ICE agents within his districts and posting about their actions online.
It appears that Hansen has no experience in immigration law.
The only semi-good news about any of this is that because immigration judges can be appointed so easily, they can also be fired just easily when/if Trump is out of office. That's if Trump doesn't manage to appoint Hansen to a real judgeship in the meantime.
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