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Isabeau Doucet in San Francisco

‘Like the Gestapo’: trailblazing immigration judge on Ice brutality and Trump’s damage to the courts

A gray-haired women in front of a large stone building.
Dana Leigh Marks in San Francisco in 2010. Photograph: Marcio José Sánchez/AP

Dana Leigh Marks had the kind of career most immigration judges dream of.

At 32, she won a precedent-setting supreme court case that made it easier to claim asylum in the US. In the decades that followed, she led the National Association of Immigration Judges to gain collective bargaining rights, fought to protect immigration courts from political meddling and blazed a trail for a generation of female judges.

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