WASHINGTON – The Ministry of Justice launched many immigration judges on Friday, according to two sources familiar with the decision and a statement from a judge on LinkedIn. This step threatens to throw sand in the gears of the tense immigration system already, as the Trump administration moves quickly Federal workforce reshaping.
The procedure was enacted by the Acting Director of the Executive Office to review immigration in the Ministry of Justice, which supervises the immigration courts.
Union representing immigration judges said that since the beginning of the Trump administration, more than twenty judges, managers and new appointments have been launched.
Five assistants of immigration and 13 candidates received new judges on Friday, according to the International Federation of Professional and Technicians.
“You have a president now a campaign against immigration and remove people from the country on the one hand. On the other hand, he is already released judges who must hear these cases and make these decisions. Therefore, it does not make sense. Matt Begz, IFPTE president, said he scratched the head.
Since the inauguration of President Donald Trump, the administration has launched at least four managers in the Executive Office for the Immigration Review, as well as the fifth manager.
Kerry Doyle, a recently appointed immigration judge, said in LinkedIn that she and others were appointed by then President Joe Biden who received an email on Friday that he told them that they had been expelled. Doyle has previously occupied the Deputy General Advisor to the Ministry of Internal Security during the Biden Administration.
“The shooting occurred despite the fact that the Immigration Court is currently in a neighborhood of 3.5 million suspended cases, and the Ministry of Justice requests more money to employ more people in EOIR!” Doyle said in a statement On LinkedIn, referring to the Executive Office for the Immigration Review.
Doyle claimed that “the shooting was political,” noting that she and her separated colleagues had been appointed during the Biden administration. NBC News cannot make claims independently, because the number of judges who have been launched is still unclear.
The Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Internal Security did not immediately respond to the requests for suspension.
The decision to expel immigration judges risk in addition to the accumulation of a case that has reached record levels during the past three years, according to what he said Congress Research Service.
The high standard levels of enforcement confrontations on the southwestern border last year led to more than 1.8 million new cases, according to CRS. The new issues have strengthened the total accumulation of immigration issue to 3.6 million by the end of 2024, despite the efforts of the Biden administration to employ more immigration judges and reduce treatment times.
“There is support from the two parties in all fields to employ more immigration judges. I mean, there are approximately 4 million cases as it is, so this administration, with these releases, has succeeded very much in increasing accumulation.”
Instead, the Trump administration focused its efforts to employ employees to help collective deportation, which Trump promised to lead to this “Millions and Millions” Of the people who are removed from the country.
Tom Human has employed Trump’s federal agencies, including the drug control department, alcohol, tobacco, firearms and explosives, to help ice in migratory arrests.
“It is not only the ice. Human told NBC News in the wake of a mass deportation in Chicago in January:” We had Dea, FBI, ATF, Us Marshal Service and DOJ everything. “
The Ministry of Internal Security requested Internal revenue service To target companies that are believed to employ immigrants working illegally in the country and investigating human trafficking, in a memorandum by the Minister of Internal Security Christie Sleep.
NBC News I mentioned earlier The administration is considering using the Ministry of Defense financing to employ contractors who would expand the scope of the detention of migrants and the deportation of migrants significantly. The new financing will go to pay civilian -run companies to expand and temporary facilities for employees.
Fire operations also come in the wake of a A series of termination In the Ministry of Justice, which was distinguished by the departure from the model rotation between the departments. During the previous departments, the Ministry of Justice asked the politically appointed American lawyers to resign. But this time, the administration launched up to 12 American lawyers. The total number of American lawyers affected immediately was not clear.
Last month, the Ministry of Justice also launched Many job lawyers Those who participated in the federal issues surrounding Trump’s alleged efforts to cancel the results of the 2020 presidential elections and the alleged control of classified documents. Trump acknowledged that he was not guilty of all charges, and Cases He was Decline After Trump was elected to a second term.
Trump’s first few weeks were distinguished in his position with the collective turmoil of the federal workforce, as the administration started widespread releases throughout the government. A federal judge gave a green light earlier this week Trump’s collective acquisition planAllow the administration to persuade millions of people to resign from their positions, but they are salaries during the month of September. Personnel Management Office also The agency’s leaders advised This week to end the test staff who were in their positions for a short period of time.
The Ministry of Governmental Efficiency, led by Elon Musk, has also led Trump’s efforts to reshape the federal workforce, taking the goal of The United States Agency for International Development and Consumer Financial Protection OfficeAmong the other sections.
