In a major shakeup of the federal government, President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice (DOJ) has fired multiple immigration judges.
The decision came as a shock to many observers considering the Trump administration’s ambitious deportation goals.
The firing announcement was confirmed by insiders who revealed that the decision was made by the acting director of the Executive Office for Immigration Review at the Justice Department.
The decision ignited outrage from a judge’s union.
The International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers (IFPTE) criticized the decision to conduct layoffs while the Trump administration is in the middle of deporting thousands of illegal immigrants.
Matt Biggs, the president of the IFPTE representing immigration judges wrote:
“You have a president now who campaigned on immigration and removing people from the country on the one hand.
“And on the other hand, he’s actually firing the very judges that have to hear these cases and make those decisions.
“So, it makes no sense. It’s a head-scratcher.”
Clearly, the administration has already determined that these judges are no longer necessary or are unfit to serve in their positions due to ideological reasons considering the new immigration policy that Trump will be implementing.
The judges who got the chop were likely standing in the way of Trump’s mass deportation agenda rather than aiding it.
The Trump administration is leaving no stone unturned and is overhauling the federal workforce at every level both to purge leftist ideologues and to cut down on the size of the federal government to reduce spending.
The Executive Office of Immigration Review has been especially hard hit by cuts as five significant executives have been let go since Trump was sworn into office last month.
In the case of the immigration judges who have been let go, it appears that the reason for their firing comes down to ideological reasons.
Judge Kerry Doyle, who was one of those judges fired by the Trump administration, posted to her LinkedIn that all of the judges who had been fired were appointed by former President Joe Biden.
Clearly, the Trump administration does not trust individuals appointed by the previous administration to appropriately review immigration litigation and asylum applications.
Judges appointed by the past regime are more likely to be lenient with illegal aliens as reflected by the open borders policy of the past administration.
The Trump administration likely viewed these judges as a liability, but there has been no confirmation of these allegations.
For years, economic immigrants have gained access “legally” to the United States by applying for asylum and disappearing into the country while their case awaited a review that would take years.
The Biden administration was more than happy to facilitate this “legal” exploit of our broken immigration system as there are literally millions of immigration cases in a backlog.
An overwhelming number of these applicants do not fit the conventional definition of “asylum seeker” as many of the illegals are economic migrants coming from a variety of countries few of which are war-torn or even notably unstable.
With Trump in charge, this abuse of our immigration system will not be tolerated and many of those economic migrants awaiting a hearing will likely find their applications rejected and subject to immediate deportation in the coming months.
