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Demovictory9

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Tue Apr 22, 2025, 02:53 PM Apr 2025

Trump fires more immigration judges even as he aims to increase deportations

https://www.npr.org/2025/04/22/nx-s1-5372681/trump-immigration-judges-fired

Another round of firings hit immigration courts in Massachusetts, California and Louisiana, as the Trump administration continues its twin efforts of downsizing the government and increasing immigration-related arrests.

At least eight immigration judges received notices that they would be put on leave and their employment would be terminated on April 22, according to two people familiar with the firings and to the International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers union, which represents immigration judges. The two people spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisals.

The judges who received the notices weren't given a reason for the terminations. They were at the end of their two-year probationary period with the Executive Office for Immigration Review, or EOIR, which is part of the Justice Department. EOIR declined to comment on personnel matters.
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Trump fires more immigration judges even as he aims to increase deportations (Original Post) Demovictory9 Apr 2025 OP
Good. He'll clog jails and courts up even worse. I love it when they create time bombs that blow up in their own faces. marble falls Apr 2025 #1
Courts are for rich people. /nt bucolic_frolic Apr 2025 #2
He's so good at working at cross purposes. MineralMan Apr 2025 #3
Guess he missed the SC decision about due process. gab13by13 Apr 2025 #4

marble falls

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1. Good. He'll clog jails and courts up even worse. I love it when they create time bombs that blow up in their own faces.
Tue Apr 22, 2025, 02:56 PM
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