President Donald Trump said Tuesday he would approve Florida’s plan to expedite deportations by having qualified National Guard members work as immigration judges.
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President Donald Trump said Tuesday he would approve Florida’s plan to expedite deportations by having qualified National Guard members work as immigration judges.
Trump made the announcement during his visit to a new state-run immigration detention center in South Florida dubbed Alligator Alcatraz .
For months now, Gov. Ron DeSantis has sought the approval of the federal government to deputize Florida National Guard Judge Advocate General Corps officers to act as immigration judges.
On Tuesday, Trump said he is in favor of the plan.
“He didn’t even have to ask me. He has my approval,” Trump said during a roundtable discussion at the immigration detention center in the Everglades.
DeSantis on Monday said having the National Guard work as immigration judges on site at the detention center could fast-track deportations.
On Tuesday, DeSantis said his goal was to cut through “bureaucracy.”
Unlike federal judges, who work for the judicial branch and are independent of the President, immigration judges work under the direction of the U.S. Attorney General.
Because the detention center is built on an old airstrip , DeSantis and others have also said it will speed up the deportation process by allowing the federal government to fly migrants out of the site.
Attorney General James Uthmeier, who was instrumental in the detention center’s planning, said on social media Tuesday that it was a “one stop shop for immigration enforcement.”
“Come in, get your ‘process,’ and fly out,” Uthmeier said.
According to Florida’s proposed immigration plan from earlier this year, there are nine Judge Advocate General officers in the National Guard who could be trained as immigration officers and training would take six weeks.
A spokesperson for the National Guard said it has not yet received formal word to begin training the judge advocates but was “standing by to provide support to this mission as needed and directed by Governor DeSantis.”
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Now we are going to use the military to determine immigration status.
we need to solidify the oath of enlistment and remove all maga domestic terrorists from our military.
Sounds more than a little like a kangaroo court.
what do you think a military tribunal is?
there are nine Judge Advocate General officers in the National Guard who could be trained as immigration officers and training would take six weeks.
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[✘] The idea that they are somehow unqualified but judges who win their seats by donating enough money, having the right family and skin color to be slated by the democratic machine are legitimate judges is bizarre.
Do you not know what a kangaroo court is? You literally claimed military lawyers would run one. If that's not despising them, I don't know what is.
why is 'process' in a scare quote ?
Why don't you ask Romy Ellenbogen or Ana Ceballo, the people who put it there?
Oh yeah, right, and I'm sure you could prove your horse shit claim and list a bunch of them just like you can list all the members of the 'deep state'. Just more rightwing conservative conspiracy theory lunacy. Are there ideologically left or right Americans who go through law school and become judges? Yes! Does this mean they're all partisan shills willing to subvert the law to help their brand of politics get ahead? Only in the minds of the gullible and the deluded. Are there a handful out there that might be partisan shills? I'm sure they exist on both sides but are not the norm.
Ask John how judges in Cook County end up on the bench.
Lol, so true and I'm speaking from personal experience unfortunately
If the Feds deem it to be legal, why not? The detainees won't have to be their very long to get their due process,
My daughter's father-in-law acted as a "judge" during hearings/tribunals in Iraq when determining what to do with the prisoners. And he was a Sr NCO not an officer
Are military lawyers substandard?
Why doesnt he just name himself as the Supreme Leader of Immigration Judging and we can dispense with all the rigmarole.
One step at a time, Young Padawan
Sounds good. Justice delayed is justice denied.
... with the perfect example of that cliche' occupying the oval office now.
The faster the deportations, the better America will be……well….except those that thought they would be a good voting base one day
And the supreme court says 3rd party countries are okay, Ukraine could definitely use the help, and it is harder to sneak back in from there.
would you like to see the definition?
You just claimed putting JAG lawyers in charge will make it one. Own your insult of them.
So, assuming they actually are qualified - i.e. they are experienced lawyers - I assume this would allow the government to simply order Guard members to do the work, rather than hiring new people. This would mean they would get to bypass whatever normal procedures, requirements, and vetting are usually required when hiring judges. They could probably get to work sooner, like right away. And perhaps best of all, they could pay them whatever ordinary Guard pay is instead of paying them whatever a judge usually makes. Sounds pretty typical for Trump.
It sounds sloppy and irresponsible - and maybe it is - but the alternative at the moment is that people will spend longer times in cages in the middle of the Everglades.
Or they could self-deport....
Who could? The Guard? People already locked in cages? To what purpose? What are you talking about?
He is saying that in order to not put themselves in the position that they are in detention center in Florida, they could self deport and avoid all the problems.
And have a chance to come back legally later.