President Donald Trump’s administration has removed eight immigration judges from their posts in New York City.
The move is part of a sweeping national effort to restore order to the immigration system and accelerate illegal alien deportations amid surging public concern over border security.
According to the New York Times, all eight judges worked inside 26 Federal Plaza, one of the city’s major immigration courts.
The outlet cited two officials, one from the Department of Justice (DOJ) and another from the National Association of Immigration Judges, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
Among those dismissed was Amiena A. Khan, an assistant chief immigration judge who supervised colleagues inside the building.
Their removal comes as the administration continues a broad overhaul of the immigration court system.
Roughly 90 immigration judges have been terminated nationwide this year, not including Monday’s firings.
Federal officials say there are about 600 immigration judges across the country.
Olivia Cassin, a New York immigration judge fired last month from a separate courthouse, described the recent wave of removals as devastating for the entrenched bureaucratic class.
“The court has been basically eviscerated,” she told the Times.
“It feels like a Monday afternoon massacre.”
System Under Pressure and Under Scrutiny
The firings coincide with a renewed national spotlight on immigration enforcement following the shocking shooting near the White House last week, where two National Guard members were attacked by a suspect later identified as Afghan national Rahmanullah Lakanwal.
One Guardsman, U.S. Army Spc. Sarah Beckstrom, was killed.
Her colleague, Staff Sgt. Andrew Wolfe, remains in critical condition.
Just one day after Lakanwal was charged, President Donald Trump announced he would “permanently pause migration from all third-world countries.”
Lakanwal entered the U.S. under Biden’s Operation Allies Welcome program.
Trump also vowed to reassess green cards granted to migrants from 19 high-risk countries and undo “millions” of admissions approved under Joe Biden.
The urgency intensified Monday when Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem told the president she was recommending a “full travel ban” from nations “flooding our nation with killers, leeches, and entitlement junkies.”
Local Resistance Collides With Federal Enforcement
The New York firings came just 48 hours after nearly 200 rioters gathered in Manhattan attempting to disrupt a potential ICE raid.
The violent scene that underscored the ideological divide between Trump’s enforcement-first approach and Democrat-run cities still clinging to “sanctuary” policies.
As the administration ramps up deportations, officials say the removal of judges who refuse to follow federal enforcement priorities is essential to restoring integrity to the immigration court system.
It’s a system they argue was politically manipulated under the previous administration.
The Path Ahead
With deportations accelerating, thousands of backlogged cases moving forward, and new travel restrictions imminent, Trump’s second-term crackdown is reshaping the immigration landscape far faster than Democrats anticipated.
The firings in New York appear to signal what Republicans describe as a long-overdue course correction and what critics on the Left fear is only the beginning of a sweeping reform effort designed to dismantle the old system from the inside out.
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