Trump administration fires more immigration judges

NPR reports on another round of firings hit immigration courts.  The judges let go were not given a reason for the terminations. They were at the end of a two-year probationary period with the Executive Office for Immigration Review.

Odd to let judges go when the immigration court backlog is at crisis levels.  “Judges review on average 500 to 600 cases a year. Still, there were almost 4 million pending cases in the last quarter of 2024, including nearly 1.5 million asylum cases. In fiscal year 2024, immigration courts issued only 666,177 initial case decisions.”

KJ