2022

August

Monday the 22nd

• “He went on to say that these people (meaning the defendants) are not ‘your regular wetbacks. They have phones and clothes and all kinds of other things,’” defense lawyer Emily Miller wrote in a complaint regarding comments made by Judge Edgar Allen Amos.
• Texas Judge Accused of Calling Immigrants ‘Wetbacks’ A Texas immigration judge has just been credibly accused by a lawyer of calling Hispanic immigrants “wetbacks,” calling into question many of the cases he’s ruled on.
• Judge in Texas border crackdown accused of using racist slur against migrants Allen Amos, a visiting judge handling trespassing cases under Gov. Greg Abbott’s “catch-and-jail” border operation, allegedly used the derogatory term in a recent conversation with a defense attorney.