Overview
- Daren Margolin is serving as director of the Justice Department’s Executive Office for Immigration Review, which oversees asylum and deportation cases.
- Multiple immigration officials interviewed by The Daily Beast, speaking anonymously, described him as lazy and dysfunctional and said he lacks understanding of his duties and immigration law.
- One interviewee alleged he was selected to act as a mouthpiece relaying orders, and critics told the outlet they fear deportation quotas and diminished court independence.
- Former immigration judge George Pappas warned that the immigration court system is being dismantled and described it as effectively nonfunctional.
- The reporting places these concerns in the context of militarized ICE and Border Patrol raids in Minneapolis and other U.S. cities.