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A federal judge in Philadelphia has ordered the government to pay nearly $40,000 in legal fees to an immigrant who sued ICE over its attempt to make him
Following President Trump's promise of mass deportations of undocumented immigrants, more than 200 immigration judges have been fired, forced out or retired, and are being replaced by what are advertised as "deportation judges.
More than 100 immigration judges across the country have been fired since the start of the Trump administration, with the Boston and Chelmsford courts hit particularly hard by the purge.
Longtime Immigration Court Judge David Paruch explains why he left the bench and the changes needed to improve the country's immigration court system.
This U.S. immigration court judge began an adventure south of the border after Trump fired him.
Underlying both the shortage of judges and the crush of habeas cases is an unsurprising culprit — politics, said J. Clark Kelso, a judicial administration expert and professor at the University of the Pacific McGeorge School of Law in Sacramento.
One of the fired judges is Nina Froes, an appointee of President Biden who served alongside 19 judges at the court in Chelmsford. That court now has just five permanent and two temporary judges.