The entrance to the Varick Street Immigration Court in New York City. The city has begun a program to provide pro bono attorneys to every immigrant detainee in proceedings here. Photo: David Handschuh/NYLJ.
Assailing what it calls the “inherent conflict of interest” in housing the immigration court system within the U.S. Department of Justice, and citing a litany of alleged “political” moves by the Trump administration that it says have made the problem worse, the New York City Bar Association is calling for the immigration court system to be removed from the DOJ and recreated as “a truly independent” court.
“There is an inherent conflict of interest in housing a judicial adjudicatory body … within DOJ, a federal agency primarily charged with law enforcement,” says the bar association in a newly released 23-page report. “We call for the removal of the court from DOJ and the creation of a truly independent Article I [of the U.S. Constitution] court,” the bar association says in the report’s “Conclusion” section.
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