How Trump Rigged Immigration Courts With Almost No One Noticing

U.S. immigration judges have essentially been told that they cannot grant asylum to immigrants, The New York Times reported Thursday. In a previously unreported whistleblower letter to Congress, a military lawyer who served as a temporary immigration judge before being fired, quoted an official who’d offered a frank—and dark—description of the standard for granting asylum under the Trump administration: “Maybe if you were Jewish and escaping Nazi Germany in 1943, you should get it.” Illegally de...