Conflict of Interest? Corruption? Hate America? Anti-Rule of Law? All of that and more. The “judge” wanted an illegal alien, terrorist to be returned to this country has been teaching attorneys how to keep illegal aliens, terrorists and murderers in this country, and on our streets.
“The website further explains that the training, including model sessions featuring Jones, was open for “pro bono attorneys, nonprofit staff, Spanish-speaking law students,” and those willing to serve as actors during the mock trial.
In exchange for their participation, attorneys who attended agreed to “accept at least one asylum pro bono case from a Maryland Immigrant Legal Assistant Project (MILAP) Partner within one year of training,” or else “attend an interview and/or hearing in either the Arlington Asylum Office and/or Baltimore Immigration Court.”
Of note, Jones was actively adjudicating immigration court cases from the Baltimore court at the time he participated in this event.
This is an openly corrupt judge—will the DOJ arrest Jones? Why not?
Judge Who Granted ‘Withholding of Removal’ for Kilmar Abrego Garcia Helped Train Lawyers to Represent Illegal Immigrants
Tom Pappert, Tennessee Star, 4/25/25 https://tennesseestar.com/news/judge-who-granted-withholding-of-removal-for-kilmar-abrego-garcia-helped-train-lawyers-to-represent-illegal-immigrants/tpappert/2025/04/25/
The immigration judge who issued the final deportation order that included a “withholding of removal” for Abrego Kilmar Garcia, the illegal immigrant and alleged member of Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) who was deported last month by the Trump administration, previously volunteered to serve as the judge for a mock court session meant to train lawyers to defend illegal immigrants.
U.S. Immigration Judge David M. Jones was listed by the Maryland Pro Bono Resource Center, an organization partnered with the Maryland State Bar Association, on an event page for its “Representing Asylum Seekers Model Hearing” event held on February 20, 2020.
According to a description still available on the organization’s website, “the PM session will include a presentation from the Court and a series of model hearings from Assistant Chief Immigration judge David M. Jones.”
The website further explains that the training, including model sessions featuring Jones, was open for “pro bono attorneys, nonprofit staff, Spanish-speaking law students,” and those willing to serve as actors during the mock trial.
In exchange for their participation, attorneys who attended agreed to “accept at least one asylum pro bono case from a Maryland Immigrant Legal Assistant Project (MILAP) Partner within one year of training,” or else “attend an interview and/or hearing in either the Arlington Asylum Office and/or Baltimore Immigration Court.”
Of note, Jones was actively adjudicating immigration court cases from the Baltimore court at the time he participated in this event.
The MILAP program identified by the website is specifically designed to provide free legal help to “unaccompanied children and families” who illegally immigrate to the United States and reside in Maryland.
Jones attended this event less than one year after he granted the “withholding of removal” order for Abrego Garcia, specifically forbidding the federal government from deporting him to one of two nations, Guatemala or El Salvador.
Despite granting the “withholding of removal,” the judge simultaneously denied two more requests by Abrego Garcia. He was deemed ineligible to apply for asylum, as he lived in the United States for about seven years, while the window to apply for asylum expires after just one year, and similarly, Jones ruled that Abrego Garcia was not likely to experience state torture in El Salvador.
Jones adjudicated cases in both Baltimore and Hyattsville, Maryland, from 2019 to 2024, according to the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), whose data reveal that the judge granted asylum requests in more than 70 percent of the cases he heard in Hyattsville. Abrego Garcia was arrested in Hyattsville in 2019, though his case was heard in Baltimore.
