Posner: Immigration Court The 'Least Competent' Agency

By Allissa Wickham (January 3, 2017, 10:39 PM EST) -- Seventh Circuit Judge Richard Posner unleashed a fiery dissent in a deportation case on Friday, blasting the immigration courts as the "least competent federal agency" and arguing that the petitioner in the case was "railroaded by the immigration judge."...

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