Ninth Circuit Court House
David Leopold at The Huffington Post reported today on evidence of frustration in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals over our broken immigration system and asked whether federal judges “are effectively throwing their hands up and imploring Congress to get to the hard work of fashioning a law that will provide America with a safe, orderly and fair immigration policy — one that protects American families and businesses and restores civil liberties.”
Leopold doesn’t have the answer to that question, but he does have a tidy, air-tight explanation of what the judges’ motives would be, if this is indeed the case:
Every day in this country, courts are forced to turn their backs on deserving immigrants and American citizens alike because of the dysfunctional immigration law. In courtrooms all across America, judges sit helplessly by, their hands legally tied, as the twisted immigration law wreaks havoc on American families, stymies American business, fails to protect people fleeing persecution, and stomps on the due process rights of immigrants and U.S. citizens. Its mean spirited provisions tear husbands from wives, parents from children and brothers from sisters. Like some sinister beast in a horror movie, the immigration law creeps into peoples’ lives and destroys them without so much as a second thought about the human suffering it leaves behind.
Filed under: Deportation, DREAM Act, immigrant community, Immigration and Customs Enforcement Tagged: | comprehensive immigration reform, Congress, courts, judges, Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
