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August 23, 2019

Justice Department Emailed Employees Link to White Nationalist Website
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The Justice Department sent an email to all employees of U.S.
immigration courts this week that included a link to an article from a
white nationalist website attacking immigration court judges. Buzz Feed
News reports the email, sent by the Justice Department's Executive
Office for Immigration Review, featured a link to a blog post on the
site VDARE using an anti-Semitic slur to attack the judges. Justice
Department officials blamed a "third-party vendor" for including the
link to the racist article, telling Buzz Feed the department condemns
anti-Semitism "in the strongest terms." This comes as Trump's Justice
Department is seeking to decertify the union representing immigration
court judges. The union has been protesting the strict quotas placed on
judges, expecting them to process 700 cases a year and tying job
performance evaluations to how quickly they close cases.


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