Roy Petty & Associates Senior Counsel and Former Principal Deputy Chief Immigration Judge Dan Weiss unveiled how divided the federal immigration courthouse was during the government shutdown in a column for the Austin American-Statesman.

“In the 1970s, the acclaimed drama “Upstairs, Downstairs” portrayed British society divided by class — servants were down, masters up. Today, that same hierarchy is mirrored in our federal courts,” Mr. Weiss writes.

Read the full commentary here.