{"id":33143,"date":"2017-05-19T14:26:50","date_gmt":"2017-05-19T18:26:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=33143"},"modified":"2017-05-19T14:26:50","modified_gmt":"2017-05-19T18:26:50","slug":"immigration-arrests-are-swamping-the-court-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=33143","title":{"rendered":"“Immigration Arrests Are Swamping The Court System”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Source: TrumpBeat: Immigration Arrests Are Swamping The Court System | FiveThirtyEight<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

I’ve been brooding over defiance lately–defiance of bad laws and the bad people who are implementing those laws.<\/a><\/p>\n

How do we go about it? Sally Yates was in a position to do it, but most of us citizens are not. While I’m struck with the phrase “citizen nullification,” practically speaking I don’t know how it can be applied.<\/p>\n

Many bad laws are challenged in the courts, and while I was hugely moved by the spontaneous appearance of outraged fellow citizens at airports where people with visas were being stopped from entering, I don’t know how I can physically stop DHS from their Gestapo-like round-ups of utterly vulnerable people–immigrants without documentation.<\/p>\n

So this FiveThirtyEight article makes me wonder: how many judges in the backlogged immigration court system will become heroes by quickly releasing immigrants who have no criminal record at all? That’d be defiance.<\/p>\n

And how can we citizens encourage them to do so?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source: TrumpBeat: Immigration Arrests Are Swamping The Court System | FiveThirtyEight I’ve been brooding over defiance lately–defiance of bad laws and the bad people who are implementing those laws. How do we go about it? Sally Yates was in a … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[337,1175],"tags":[1282],"class_list":["post-33143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal-news","category-the-facts-of-life","tag-undocumented-immigrants"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t