DOJ sent immigration court employees a link to a racist and anti-S

[wvit1001]

The DOJ sent immigration court employees a link to a racist and anti-Semitic blog post attacking immigration judges

[wvit1001]

This is the kind of thing that happens in the swamp that trump has constructed where our great countries government stood.



The Justice Department sent immigration court employees an email this week that linked to an article attacking immigration judges with offensive and anti-Semitic slurs, BuzzFeed News reported on Thursday.

The article was posted on the white nationalist website VDare, which routinely traffics in racist and anti-immigration rhetoric and has explicitly targeted immigration judges in the past.

Ashley Tabbador, the head of the National Association of Immigration Judges, said in a letter to the Justice Department that the email came from the department's Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR).

Tabbador wrote that the article "directly attacks" immigration judges "with racial and ethnically tinged slurs," and the label 'Kritarch,'" according to BuzzFeed. "The reference to Kritarch in a negative tone is deeply offensive and Anti-Semitic," Tabbador added.

Kritarch is a term derived from the concept of a "kritarchy," or a society run by judges. It's referenced in the Old Testament's Book of Judges as a type of rule in ancient Israel. VDare has repeatedly used the term to pejoratively refer to immigration judges.

Tabbador called on James McHenry, the head of EOIR, to take action following the dissemination of the article.



https://www.businessinsider.com/doj-sent-immigration-judges-racist-article-vdare-2019-8

[Truman62]

GOPpers won't comment, because secretly, they approve. 

I bet Satan is just sooooo giddy and gleeful with tRump in office!

[Dan]

Another one of your nutty opinions, Vit?

[Jw2]

DOJ condemns white nationalist content it sent to immigration court employees

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/458527-justice-department-condemns-white-nationalist-content-sent-to

The Department of Justice (DOJ) has acknowledged it made a mistake by sending a link to a white nationalist blog in an email sent to immigration court employees this week.

A spokesperson for the agency's Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) said that the agency had included the link mistakenly. The link, which directed users to the website VDare, contained negative and anti-Semitic comments about sitting immigration judges.

The link came as part of the EOIR's Monday news briefing, which is sent to all employees and contains links to news coverage about the agency, and was first reported by BuzzFeed News.

“The daily EOIR morning news briefings are compiled by a contractor and the blog post should not have been included," EOIR assistant press secretary Kathryn Mattingly told The Hill. "The Department of Justice condemns Anti-Semitism in the strongest terms.”

A letter sent this week from a union representing immigration judges to the Justice Department said that the linked post contained "racial and ethnically tinged slurs" referring to sitting judges and urged the department to avoid sharing such information in the future.

“Publication and dissemination of a white supremacist, anti-Semitic website throughout the EOIR is antithetical to the goals and ideals of the Department of Justice,” the letter read.