sentences:  Following Couch's August 2019 promotion to the Justice Department's Board of Immigration Appeals, a body that holds final decision-making power on deportations, several news outlets including "Mother Jones" and "Newsweek" reported how Couch was once the subject of a 2016 formal complaint filed with the Justice Department.The complaint detailed how Couch threatened a two-year-old child in immigration court with a dog attack if he did not behave.The affidavit stated that when the boy failed to obey Couch's command, he yelled “I have a very big dog in my office, and if you don't be quiet, he will come out and bite you!”
  
  Any time the boy made noise Couch continued to threaten the toddler with a dog as the Spanish translator interpreted the threats.