1. United States
2. Utah
3. Letter

The government is obligated to provide noncitizens a full and fair hearing on their immigration claims. Yet evidence is mounting that the Trump administration secretly engineered the outcome of Mahmoud Khalil's immigration proceedings to make an example of him and scare other immigrants from exercising their First Amendment rights. It's never been clearer that the Trump administration is weaponizing the immigration court system to silence speech it doesn't like. Immigration judges fired by the Trump administration have repeatedly reported being threatened – both implicitly and explicitly – if they don't rule according to what the government wants. The Board of Immigration Appeals bypassed normal processes to fast-track Mahmoud's deportation proceedings and decided against him in an unprecedented nine days. Multiple Board of Immigration Appeals judges recused themselves from the decision to publish their opinion, indicating they may have played a role in the immigration judge's decision-making behind the scenes. And that's on top of the growing reports that top government officials are pressuring judges to rush out predetermined decisions in high-profile cases like Mahmoud's in flagrant disregard of the Constitution's promise of due process. This is unacceptable. A Constituent Disgusted With The Way Republicans Are Throwing Away Democracy, And Returning The Country Back To An Age Of Racism & Poverty Of The Dark Ages.