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422. Non-Judging Crimes

By Joel Jacobsen

Immigration judges aren't, as their name might otherwise imply, judges.  They're Department of Justice employees, complete with union.  They're not judges in another sense, too, according to a South Florida Sun-Sentinel (in Miami, even the sun needs a sentinel) article posted by Sonia Ansari over at Our Curious Immigration Laws.  They don't have to follow the law but can just indulge their mood swings: Of South Florida's 26 immigration judges who saw large numbers of asylum seekers, grant rates ranged from 22 percent to 98 percent. By way of comparison, here's a chart of the rate at which Bernalillo County (i.e., Albuquerque) Metropolitan Court judges dismissed drunken driving charges in 2006.  The rate varied from 20% to 51%, a mere 31% swing...continue to full post

Full post as published by Judging Crimes on January 26, 2010 (boomark / email).