Effort comes as Trump administration cracks down on immigration, ramping up arrests and deportations
The US defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, has approved sending up to 600 military lawyers to the federal justice department to serve as temporary immigration judges, according to a memo reviewed by the Associated Press.
The military will begin sending groups of 150 attorneys – both military and civilians – to the justice department “as soon as practicable” and the military services should have the first round of people identified by next week, according to the memo, dated 27 August.
The effort comes as Donald Trump’s presidential administration cracks down on immigration across the country, ramping up arrests and deportations. Immigration courts are also already dealing with a huge backlog of roughly 3.5m cases that has ballooned in recent years.
Wait, we had 600 extra lawyers in the military doing nothing? Shouldn’t Doge have caught this massive overspending and done something about it? Also, are military lawyers even trained in immigration law? Isn’t an immigration offense an administrative violation, and thus, by definition civilian?
Here is hoping that the people are Allies who throw wrenches into the process and force ICE to jump through hoops for years
It’s fascism. Anyone throwing wrenches will be fired and blacklisted.
Even if you follow the letter of the law while throwing wrenches? You know, pesky stuff like asking for evidence and such?
Believe it or not? Straight to jail.
Do you call them gulags, like in Soviet Russia, or did you come up with better branding?
we’re talking about people who were willing to be lawyers for the US military…
every single one of them deserves to stay. les goooo
