Trump administration expands ranks of 'deportation judges' with 33 new hires, half from military

The Justice Department has appointed 33 new immigration judges, including 27 temporary hires, after removing or pressuring ...

Trump Immigration Judges Pushed to Deny Asylum in Swift Training

Top immigration court leaders are telling new judges to refrain from granting migrants asylum in most cases, multiple people familiar with the matter said as the Trump administration carries out its ...
Opinion

Contributor: Immigration judges should be real judges, not political pawns

Immigration courts are not part of the judicial branch, and so the Trump administration can pressure them to skip due process and maximize deportations.

Surge in Immigration Cases in Minnesota Pushes Prosecutors and Judges to Brink

Remarks by a prosecutor opened a revealing window onto how the courts in the state are buckling under the weight of a deluge ...

FLASHBACK: 2024’s immigration ground zero in spotlight again as judge's 11th hour ruling sparks outrage

Springfield, Ohio, is a the center of the nationwide immigration debate once again after the town's thousands of Haitian ...

‘Untethered to the facts’: Federal judges say Trump administration has a credibility issue as it battles immigration cases

While penning an opinion dropping a felony assault charge against a protester, US Magistrate Judge Gabriel Fuentes took the opportunity to remark on a worrying trend in the five recent cases tied to ...