Who Is Dolly Gee? A Look at the Judge Deciding the Fate of Trump's Executive Order

LOS ANGELES — Judge Dolly M. Gee has called the treatment of immigrant children in detention “deplorable” in a legal opinion. She has castigated the federal government for “fear mongering” when it argued that the detention of migrant families at the border was a necessary deterrent.

And that was during the Obama administration.

Soon, the national crisis over immigration, which has moved from searing scenes at the border of children being separated from their families, to the halls of power in Washington, will shift to a judge’s chambers in Los Angeles. That’s where Judge Gee is expected to consider President Trump’s executive order that ended the separation of migrant families but now seeks to hold them together for an indefinite period.

Judge Gee was appointed to the federal bench by President Obama in 2009. She is the daughter of Chinese immigrants — her father was an aerospace engineer and her mother a garment worker. At her confirmation hearing in 2009, Barbara Boxer, then a senator from California, said that Judge Gee’s mother, “was a garment worker who never taught Dolly to sew because she did not want her daughter to have to stitch clothes for a living.”

The Trump administration, in issuing the executive order, is expected to ask the federal courts to alter a 1997 consent decree known as the Flores settlement that limits the detention of migrant families to no more than 20 days. . .

Evincing little patience for efforts to obfuscate the truth as she sees it, Judge Gee began one of her Obama-era decisions on immigration with a quote from Mahatma Gandhi: “An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.”'>>>

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