"The Justice Department Sent Immigration Judges A White Nationalist Blog Post With Anti-Semitic Attacks"

[Ted King]

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ham...ationalist

An email sent from the Justice Department to all immigration court employees this week included a link to an article posted on a white nationalist website that “directly attacks sitting immigration judges with racial and ethnically tinged slurs,” according to a letter sent by an immigration judges union and obtained by BuzzFeed News.

According to the National Association of Immigration Judges, the Justice Department’s Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) sent court employees a link to a blog post from VDare, a white nationalist website, in its morning news briefing earlier this week that included anti-Semitic attacks on judges.

The briefings are sent to court employees every weekday and include links to various immigration news items. BuzzFeed News confirmed the link to a blog post was sent to immigration court employees Monday. The post detailed a recent move by the Justice Department to decertify the immigration judges union.

A letter Thursday from union chief Ashley Tabaddor to James McHenry, the director of the Justice Department’s EOIR, said the link to the VDare post angered many judges.

“The post features links and content that directly attacks sitting immigration judges with racial and ethnically tinged slurs and the label ‘Kritarch.’ The reference to Kritarch in a negative tone is deeply offensive and Anti-Semitic,” wrote Tabaddor. The VDare post includes pictures of judges with the term “kritarch” preceding their names.

Tabaddor said the term kritarchy is a reference to ancient Israel during a time of rule by a system of judges.

[cbelt3]

Hopefully that well is nicely poisoned as a result and ICE a the Department of Injustice loses. Bigly.

[Lemon Drop]

A former senior DOJ official said that the email in question was "generated by a third-party vendor that utilizes keyword searches to produce news clippings for staff. It is not reviewed or approved by staff before it is transmitted."


That sounds like a complete waste of time and money, not to mention high risk for transmitting offensive material in a professional communication. I'm sure the judges can find their own relevant news content.

[RgrF]

...also sounds like a CYA explanation.

[Ted King]

Lemon Drop wrote:
A former senior DOJ official said that the email in question was "generated by a third-party vendor that utilizes keyword searches to produce news clippings for staff. It is not reviewed or approved by staff before it is transmitted."


That sounds like a complete waste of time and money, not to mention high risk for transmitting offensive material in a professional communication. I'm sure the judges can find their own relevant news content.

Thanks, it was a little perplexing that this would happen even in the Trump administration. It would still be interesting to hear what the keywords were that the vendor used and why those words were chosen.

[Sarcany]

Ted King wrote:
[quote=Lemon Drop]
A former senior DOJ official said that the email in question was "generated by a third-party vendor that utilizes keyword searches to produce news clippings for staff. It is not reviewed or approved by staff before it is transmitted."

That sounds like a complete waste of time and money, not to mention high risk for transmitting offensive material in a professional communication. I'm sure the judges can find their own relevant news content.

Thanks, it was a little perplexing that this would happen even in the Trump administration. It would still be interesting to hear what the keywords were that the vendor used and why those words were chosen.
I'd like to know what 3rd party they use to format it into a newsletter.

I work with several companies that use similar services, but they receive the clippings in a random lump. Every day or week, someone copies the content from an email message or website, selects which articles to include, and then plugs the selections into a template for an email blast. The boss always gives it a cursory review before the message goes out. In each case, there'd be humans in the mix to catch something like this.

[Acer]

No need to check sources when the article already fits your world view.

[SteveG]

The Chosen One is showing the way!