Another round of immigration judges received an email on Friday informing them they are being let go, NPR has learned, adding to the growing list of immigration court personnel cut by Trump amid his efforts to speed up deportations of immigrants without legal status.
15 immigration judges learned that they would be put on leave and that their employment would terminate on July 22, according to two people familiar with the firings and a confirmation from the International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers (IFPTE), a union that represents immigration judges. The two people spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisals.
Looking on from the outside, every piece of news sounds like “the avalanche has gathered more debris and more speed and causes even more devastation”. It’s horrible. Never in my lifetime have I watched the implosion of a democracy in real time. Looking at Germany in the 1930s must have felt similar.
This is undeniably true. If democracy were still here, the news would have been more judges brought on to speed up process. But removing judges to speed things up? That absolutely means they are not following the law and removing impediments.