Hunter’s father is making transformative changes to the DOJ’s immigration court system by replacing the man who’s been running it since May of 2017:
POLITICO – The Biden administration on Wednesday made its first move to set the nation’s immigration courts in a new direction, announcing plans to replace the official who has overseen the system for nearly four years.
One week into President Joe Biden’s term, the Justice Department said Jean King will soon take over on an acting basis as director of the Executive Office for Immigration Review.
King, a former EOIR general counsel who currently serves as the office’s chief administrative law judge, will replace James McHenry, a close ally of former Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
Staffers and judges were informed of the shift Wednesday morning in a memo from Acting Deputy Attorney General John Carlin. The move will be effective Sunday.
The immigration courts, run by the DOJ, are responsible for processing asylum cases. That’s why this position is really a big deal:
McHenry was named as acting chief of EOIR in May 2017 and was given the permanent director title the following January. As the top executive branch official overseeing the immigration courts, McHenry spearheaded a series of policy initiatives that rankled immigration advocates, including efforts to narrow asylum standards and to press immigration judges to close cases more quickly.
While immigration advocates have been highly critical of McHenry’s tenure, the Trump administration boasted of the immigration courts’ successes and efficiency under his oversight.
McHenry made major strides towards replacing the courts’ archaic paper-based filing system with a computerized one, hired a record number of new immigration judges and sharply increased the number of cases closed out every year — at least before Covid-19 hit.
Immigration judges concluded a record 276,000 cases in fiscal 2019 and were on pace to close 400,000 cases in fiscal 2020 before the pandemic ground the immigration court system to a near halt.
After his deportation moratorium was crushed yesterday by a federal judge, I told you that Hunter’s father would likely begin SLOOOWING down the process of deportations. This change is an effort that will likely do that, considering McHenry’s speedy record to conclude cases.
This move also proves that the radicals in Biden’s administration are more interested in destroying all the good immigration work that Trump did in stopping and deporting illegals than anything else.
It’s gonna be a long four years.