One of Minnesota's most unhinged right-wing posters is the state's newest immigration judge

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https://minnesotareformer.com/2026/04/09/right-wing-poster-is-minnesotas-newest-immigration-judge/

One of Minnesota’s most unhinged right-wing posters is the state’s newest immigration judge
Attorney Nathan Hansen has endorsed fringe conspiracies and legal theories

Nathan Hansen, a right-wing attorney and influential X user who has amplified racist conspiracies and fringe legal theories, will make decisions on which immigrants will be deported in his new job as an immigration judge at Fort Snelling.

The Executive Office for Immigration Review, the division of the U.S. Department of Justice that hires and oversees immigration judges, announced Wednesday that Hansen was appointed after a “competitive application process” and would begin hearing immigrants’ cases this month.

Hansen’s appointment comes as the Trump administration purges immigration judges who aren’t carrying out their mass deportation agenda, according to reporting from the New York Times. In their place, the DOJ is appointing judges with backgrounds that suggest they will approve deportations more often. The strategy is working — a record-low percentage of asylum claims have been approved since Trump took office.

Hansen’s extensive social media history contains posts endorsing popular but widely-debunked right-wing conspiracies including Pizzagate and Obama birtherism, to which President Donald Trump also subscribes. In 2024, he amplified posts about the “Haitian invasion of Ohio,” a racist conspiracy pushed by Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance that accused Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, of eating family pets.