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An immigration court isn't a real court. It is an executive "court" with appointed judges (essentially employees) and no judicial oversight.

If you think of the three branches of government, immigration proceedings are squarely under the executive, the same branch trying to deport people.



Not true. Immigration determinations are appealable, with certain limitations, to the circuit courts of appeal.


How does that make what I said "not true?" What I said is a well established fact:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Office_for_Immigrati...

You can, under limited circumstances, appeal your case to a real court, but the primary court that most people being deported deal with is in the executive branch meaning the executive branch conducts a full deportation from inception to execution in almost all cases.


You stated there was “no judicial oversight.” The possibility of appeal to an Article III court is “judicial oversight.”




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