The Trump administration promoted a judge who once threatened a two-year-old immigrant child with an attack dog:
, when a two-year-old Guatemalan child was being a bit disruptive. Couch demanded that the child be quiet, and he did so by making threats:
Assistant Chief Immigration Judge Deepali Nadkarni, Couch’s superior, interviewed Coiner-Collier multiples times about the affidavit and told her that it was accurate. Schorr says Nadkarni told him that everything in the affidavit was corroborated by the internal investigation. Nadkarni wrote to Schorr in June 2016, “Judge Couch acknowledged he did not handle the situation properly and assured me it will not occur again.
This traumatic event makes so many of the fault lines within the U.S. immigration system clear. Couch also made statements that seemed to purposely inflate the boy’s age, stating: Coiner-Collier was then asked to remove the boy from the courtroom. The boy resisted her, trying to stay with his mother. The boy screamed and cried in another room until he was reunited with his equally distressed mother.When she [Coiner-Collier] went back to the courtroom to file paperwork, Couch told her, “I owe you an apology.” He said he knew it wasn’t her job to watch over children. Then he made a comment that suggested he had threatened other children.
Apparently Couch has a reputation for intimidation. Coiner-Collier did say that in her experience with Couch, he would sometimes go out of his way to explain things to the immigrants in his courtroom, but on the other side of the spectrum, there were many days his aggressive temper couldn’t be bottled:
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