Trump administration fires more than 12 immigrant judges
More than dozens of immigrant judges were fired on Friday and fired at the same time as the president. Donald TrumpA promise to sort out federal workers.
Union officials told the Associated Press that 13 judges and five assistant chiefs are scheduled to be sworn in. Immigration judgewas fired on Friday without warning.
The movement will be two times later Other judges It was rejected this week, the AP reported. No alternatives have been announced.
The Trump administration fired more than 12 judges on Friday. (Donald Trump/Truth Social)
The US immigrant backlog reaches new records of 3 million pending cases: Report
Fox News Digital reported previously US immigration The court’s backlog surpassed three million pending cases.
Currently, immigration judges are on average 4,500 pending cases each, according to Syracuse University’s Trade Record Access Clearinghouse.
The Associated Press reported that five Supreme Court officials have been replaced by the Trump administration, including Mary Chen, the agency’s representative director.
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Trump’s executive order on birthright citizenship was blocked by a third federal judge
In a note released on January 27th, Sirce Owen, Ministry of Justicethe Biden administration has called the “severely undermined” core values of the Office of Enforcement for Immigration Examination (EOIR) “severely undermined.”
“Efforts to restore these values and reestablish Eoir as the model’s administrative arbitration body is on track,” Owen writes. “There is no limit to what Eoir can achieve if all employees are willing to participate in the effort.”
File Photo: Before a press conference with Washington Attorney General on January 24, 2023, a sticker showing the Department of Justice’s headquarters, which is known as the “main justice,” is a podium in the department’s headquarters briefing room. can be seen behind. (Reuters/Kevin Lamarck/Photo file)
The Trump administration on Thursday directed agencies to fire most probation workers without protection from civil servants, the Associated Press reported.
The International Federation of Professional Engineers, representing federal employees, and the U.S. Department of Justice’s Enforcement Office for Immigration Examination, did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Fox News Digital on Saturday.
Landon Mion and the Associated Press of Fox News Digital contributed to this report.