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De mens in de toga. Die hoopt dat hij nooit een echte vluchteling heeft geweigerd, die uitspraak moet doen terwijl een gezin zit te huilen in de zaal, die vindt dat zelfs de grootste schurk niet hoort te worden gemarteld...... I am an immigration judge. People I meet seem pretty interested in that, especially lately. But they often don’t seem to understand what we do. I’ve found that the best way to explain the job is to describe some of the decisions we make. People come before an immigration judge because the U.S. government, via the Department of Homeland Security, is trying to deport them. And there is usually little dispute that they are deportable. They’ve come across the border illegally, or they’ve overstayed their visas, or they have legal status in the U.S. but have committed crimes that make them deportable. So we don’t have to spend much time deciding whether someone is here legally or not. What we do spend time on is whether the person before us has a leg...

"Although promised for the weekend due to an illness a bit later. But here is the "translation" of the Dutch court rulings on Zambrano and the cheap Europe-route procedure. In the Netherlands a residence permit as a familymember costs around 1000 pound. There is one exception and that is the so-called Europe test. In that case a third country national married with a non-Dutch EU national who wants to come and live in The Netherlands or a Dutch person married with a third country national and which couple lived at least 3 months together in another EU country can ask the immigration service to tests if the third country national has a right to stay in the Netherlands based on European law and Directive 2004/38. This 'Europe test" costs only around 30 pound. Due to the Zambrano ruling a lot of people who are illegal here try to claim permission to stay due to their Dutch children and some also claim they have that right under article 8 of the ECHR. Seeing t...