{"id":589820,"date":"2026-04-21T17:23:50","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T17:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=589820"},"modified":"2026-04-21T17:23:50","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T17:23:50","slug":"poetic-mission-fired-activist-immigration-judge-is-rewarded-with-usa-today-puff-piece-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=589820","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Poetic mission\u2019: Fired activist immigration judge is rewarded with USA Today puff piece"},"content":{"rendered":"
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If there were an award for the mother of all puff pieces,\u00a0USA Today<\/em>\u2018s fired immigration judge article would be in the running.<\/p>\n

X users are baffled by the soft stance taken toward Jeremiah Johnson, who they describe as taking on an \u201cunusual, if poetic, mission\u201d since being removed from his position. He decided to travel to Guatemala to meet the family of immigrants to whom he had granted asylum, carrying with him a bouquet of flowers.<\/p>\n

Look:<\/p>\n

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Five months after he was fired as a U.S. immigration judge, Jeremiah Johnson found himself rumbling into the highlands of Guatemala on a crowded bus, a bouquet of flowers in hand.<\/p>\n

His unusual, if poetic, mission: to visit relatives of an indigenous family who fled their village\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/CzOz4IgFlN<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 USA TODAY (@USATODAY) April 20, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\u201cHis unusual, if poetic, mission: to visit relatives of an indigenous family who fled their village for the United States and won asylum in his courtroom,\u201d the outlet wrote.<\/p>\n

\u201cJohnson, 52, served nearly a decade as an immigration judge in San Francisco, in a famously liberal circuit, hearing hundreds of asylum cases. Day in, day out, he heard stories of political and religious persecution, torture, violence, rape. He granted asylum 89% of the time<\/a>,\u201d the article continued. \u201cThat statistic, he believes, is likely one of the reasons the Trump administration targeted him and the San Francisco court in an effort to rid the system of alleged bias in favor of immigrants, and against the Department of Homeland Security.\u201d<\/p>\n

X users weren\u2019t inspired by his \u201cunusual\u201d pilgrimage, or by his record of \u201cactivism\u201d on the bench:<\/p>\n

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Since legitimate asylum claims are sub five percent and probably sub one percent, the fact that this guy was granting 89 percent approvals should be a national scandal about the corruption of the rule of law\u2014 not the basis for a puff piece.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Jeremy Carl (@realJeremyCarl) April 20, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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It\u2019s not really quite a fair trade\u2014 he should have brought an equal number of his shitlib colleagues with him to stay there.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Andrew Kloster (@ARKloster) April 20, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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He wasn\u2019t a judge, he was an activist masquerading as an immigration judge.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Hunter Biden\u2019s Life Coach (@Dave_AllRighty) April 20, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Doesn\u2019t sound like Guatemala is too dangerous if he\u2019s able to casually visit it like this. Why did they need asylum again?<\/p>\n

\u2014 Jean-Luc Canard (@JLCanard) April 20, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Guatemala is so dangerous he granted asylum 89% of the time but it\u2019s also safe enough for him to larp as a poor Guatemalan?<\/p>\n

This makes no sense and proves the guy is retarded.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Joey Snipes (@joeysnipes19) April 20, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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If there were an award for the mother of all puff pieces,\u00a0USA Today\u2018s fired immigration judge article would be in the running. X users are baffled by the soft stance taken toward Jeremiah Johnson, who they describe as taking on an \u201cunusual, if poetic, mission\u201d since being removed from his position. He decided to travel… Continue reading \u2018Poetic mission\u2019: Fired activist immigration judge is rewarded with USA Today puff piece<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":589812,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[18,19,10,21,12,11,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-589820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cancel-culture","category-censorship","category-civil-liberties","category-election-integrity","category-equal-justice","category-free-speech","category-religious-freedom","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=589820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/589812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=589820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=589820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=589820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}