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No matter how hard he tried, Jonatan Garcia said, he couldn’t find steady work in Guatemala. He dabbled in construction, and on some days picked beans, after losing his sales job at a TV station a few weeks after the pandemic shuttered businesses and further stifled employment in his country.
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Tents are seen in 2019 at a migrant camp in Matamoros, Mexico, where hundreds of asylum-seekers were sent to wait for their cases to be heard under then-President Trump s remain in Mexico policy.
Jamilah Espinosa remembers it well.
The Charlotte-based immigration attorney traveled to the U.S.-Mexico border in 2019 when then-President Trump started what’s known as the Migrant Protection Protocols, or remain in Mexico policy. It allowed the Department of Homeland Security to send asylum-seekers to Mexico while they waited on a judge’s decision.
“Lawyers for Good Government and several nonprofits were asking for attorneys to come on the ground and go to Matamoros, so we flew down to Brownsville, Espinosa said.
Immigration advocates sounded the alarm after the Biden administration’s first list of new immigration court picks was filled entirely by judges selected under former President Donald Trump.
The Justice Department last week released a list of 17 new immigration judges, who decide whether to grant asylum claims or deport migrants. “The 17 new immigration judges referenced in the notice all received their conditional offers under the prior administration,” a DOJ spokesperson told
The Hill, despite President Biden’s vow to undo his predecessor’s damage to the country’s immigration system.
Trump cut funding to the immigration courts during his four years in office and limited how much control immigration judges have over their own dockets, barring them from allowing migrants with pending cases to remain in the country indefinitely. His administration also launched an aggressive enforcement strategy at the border and reopened hundreds of thousands of low-priority cases tha