Kangaroo Court Report #3 - They’ve been moved. Sorry.

MINNEAPOLIS — Immigration Judge Audrey Carr is a no-nonsense Department of Justice employee and one of the few Black immigration judges in the country.

She often speaks sternly to those in her office courtroom located in Ft. Snelling, though never to the Department of Homeland Security lawyers.

She started her career as a human rights attorney and worked in immigration advocacy.

Her personality is reminiscent of the persona taken up by some women in male-dominated fields. She does not like explanations and often dismisses the concerns of other brown and Black people put in her care.

Appointed by former Attorney General Jeff Sessions in 2018, she now has an asylum-denial rating higher than most of her colleagues in the country. Curiously, she has a lower denial rate than her fellow judges at Ft. Snelling.

PLEASE READ THE PRIMER - IMMIGRATION JUDGES ARE NOT REAL JUDGES

The irony is thick considering Ft. Snelling was also the catalyst site of one of the most historically racist Supreme Court rulings in the Dred Scott case.

Scott and his wife were both slaves of a U.S. Indian Agent stationed at Ft. Snelling and were brought to the Minnesota territory in the 1830s. The pair sued for their freedom, arguing that since slavery was illegal in the territory, they could not possibly be expected to serve the man called their owner.

However, the Supreme Court disagreed and in a now famous order, said that Black people, free or enslaved, were property and not citizens and that slave owners could take their property anywhere.

In addition, former Chief Justice Roger Taney wrote in his opinion that Black people did not have the full use of freedom of speech, nor the right to hold public meetings or have firearms.

Of course, this argument was settled following the Civil War and the addition of the 14th Amendment, which granted citizenship rights to all people born or naturalized in the U.S.

However, the Trump regime has taken to ripping apart the Constitution, which includes attempts to redefine what it means to be an American citizen. The Supreme Court is now poised to possibly reverse birthright citizenship.

This all plays as the backdrop behind Carr’s denial of bond for detainees who have no criminal history.

While a federal judge in California has ordered that detainees must receive a bond hearing, something that the Trump regime attempted to take away this summer, that’s not going to be the case in Carr’s court.

She tells multiple lawyers that the direction she has been given is to not award bond.

When pressed by a lawyer who says the court order for bond hearings is clear, Carr says she only has to provide a hearing, which this is. She’s not required to grant bond, she says.

No arguments for applying an actual bond were made during that hearing.

In addition, at least four people assigned to hearings Tuesday have been transferred from Minnesota jails to Port Isabelle in Texas, meaning their cases are no longer under Ft. Snelling jurisdiction and the hearing is moot.

“He’s been moved to Texas or somewhere,” Carr tells one lawyer with a chuckle. “Sorry."

The DHS lawyer, Jennifer Duffy, tells Carr that even she doesn’t get notified when a detainee is moved, something that surprises Carr.

Duffy spent most of her morning in court sipping from her giant pink Stanley mug and picking the dirt under her fingernails.

Perhaps it’s more efficient for DHS lawyers not to get notified of transfers because it’s not like they do anything here. Not really.