Mob Mentality Leads to a Hanging Immigrant-Court Judge

 Sometimes, the person is innocent, but the judge comes in and hangs him from the highest tree. However rare, there are times the judge is so biased against a people, he doesn't give them a chance. He seeks and finds the "evidence," he needs to convict.
   What I'm saying, is there are times the innocent are convicted. There are times the judge can't even see his own wickedness. He will swear he is administering nothing but justice, when in reality he is meting out nothing but injustice.
   If prejudices can exist in the hearts of men, those who have them can find their way into judgeships. However often it is, it can -- and does -- happen.
   Think on the black people, and the cases in our history in which innocents were convicted of murders they didn't commit.
   It happened. It's real.
   And, if there can be an extreme, there can be gradations. If there will be judges whose biases are complete, there will be those whose judgments are flavored.
   By public opinion.
   If you have a nation that believes the immigrants are guilty, that they have no right to be here, that influence is going to carve its weight on your judges. Just as the hanging judge picks and chooses his evidence -- disregarding and tossing out what he doesn't want, and stretching to include things that true justice would leave out -- so, today, there are times we seek to convict more than we seek to free. There are times we are looking for reason to deport, times we won't even look at reason to stay.
   You please the public. If the public demands this, there is a tendency to do so.
    Some people are fair and balanced. Even so, some immigration judges are fair and balanced. But, so long as the principle of bias is a real thing, it will exist, even in your courts. And, there is no court in America where the pressure for bias is so great as it is in our immigration courts. If we can see there were black people convicted of murders they didn't commit, we should the same type of public pressure is going to be coming down on our immigration courts today.
  Mob mentality leads to mob justice, even when it isn't the people, but rather a judge, who is meting it out.