NPR: The Trump administration fired nearly 100 immigration judges in 2025. What's next?
NPR reports on the Trump administration's reshaping (and here) of the immigration courts. Part of the Executive Office for Immigration Review in the Department of Justice, the immigration court system was not viewed as independent before the recent actions. The Trump administration has taken steps that further limit the independence of immigration judges.
NPR reports on the mass firing of immigration judges. In addition, "[a]n immigration court in San Francisco is the latest to close its doors, NPR has learned, as the Trump administration seeks to remake the system that offers immigrants due process. In 2025, the Trump administration fired nearly 100 immigration judges, according to an independent tally kept by NPR. And this week, employees at the San Francisco Immigration Court got an email telling them their doors would soon be closing."
