Salah Sarsour Ordered Deported

The vast majority of real judges at work in the U.S. today have upheld their oaths to the Constitution, including some of the ones Trump appointed. We can all be glad of that.

Immigration judges (so-called), especially ones who have come into their positions under Trump, are another story, and their failings need to be called out more often. 

These people are not judicial appointees, but rather are employees of the federal government. Especially in the second Trump administration, they have been selected for their lack of qualification and willingness to follow the dictates of Stephen Miller. I wrote about one example here in Minnesota back in April.

Even if they weren't appointed by Trump, too many of them are operating in an atmosphere of forced deference to the regime.

A case in point: Salah Sarsour — the Wisconsin man who was detained from April through June and kept essentially as a political prisoner without the medication he needed for diabetes — can be deported because he's a "threat to national security," according to one of the immigration judges.

This AP story has the details. The judge bowed to the ridiculous State Department claim that Sarsour, who has lived in the U.S. since 1993 causing no problems at all, is somehow a threat to national security. 

According to WGN, a Chicago television station, the Chicago-based judge

found [Secretary of State Marco] Rubio’s letter singling out Sarsour as a foreign policy risk was “presumptive and sufficient evidence” that the government can remove him.... The judge gave “extreme deference” to Rubio and to Israel, which has “collaborated” with DHS in the effort to deport Sarsour.

Probably not coincidentally, the judge — who was not appointed by Trump — announced his retirement immediately after deciding this case. Imagine having to do this kind of thing for your job.

Sarsour, who fears for his life if he is deported to Israel (or who knows where else this regime might send him through one of its illegal extraditions), is appealing. I don't know if appeals of deportation orders like this go to immigration judges or real courts of appeal.