The Justice Department is once again trying to circumvent the due process rights accorded to immigrants.

The Board of Immigration Appeals, the nation's highest immigration court, has 23 members. The Department of Justice has offered 9 of them early buyouts. 

At a time when immigration courts have its highest total of case backlog ever, exceeding 1 million cases, this seems a baffling step in the wrong direction.

But the fact that all nine offered a buyout were appointed to the BIA before President Trump took office is an important clue to grasping the politics behind the offers.

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