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The Trump administration has abruptly fired 20 immigration judges without explanation, raising concerns amid efforts to accelerate deportations.

The firings include judges who had yet to be sworn in and senior officials overseeing immigration courts, which already face a backlog of 3.7 million cases.

Union official Matthew Biggs said it was unclear if the move was meant to send a message on immigration policy but called it part of a broader federal workforce purge, adding, “They’re treating these people as if they’re not human beings. It’s bad all around.”

  • LupusBlackfur
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    5 days ago

    Yep.

    These firings simply an excuse. Now they can say “look, there’s no judges to handle cases. Backlog” etc…

    Another Chumped up problem created simply to support the Chump narrative.

    🤡 🤡

    • @[email protected]
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      85 days ago

      I thought they would hire kangaroo-court style judges that just wave everyone through to gitmo.

      • ✺roguetrick✺
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        Immigration judges are already kangaroo-court style judges. You can’t have judicial independence if it’s under the executive who creates the policy out of whole cloth in the first place. That’s what this makes a fine point of but it’s always been true.

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      The backlog is already over 3 million people, it probably is just another case of everyone that was on their probationary period being fired like in every other part of the government.