San Francisco’s immigration courts have been the hardest-hit in a wave of immigration judge firings and resignations across the United States, according to data shared by an immigration judges’ union and reviewed by Mission Local.
The city has lost 14 immigration judges to firings since April last year, and seven to retirement or resignation.
The losses have left the immigration judicial system in the city decimated. The city’s immigration courts had 21 judges at the start of President Donald Trump’s second term and now have just two judges. One of the courts closed at the beginning of May, and its second has now become a satellite of the Concord court across the bay.
Nationwide, 115 judges have been fired since April of last year, at least another 100 retired or were reassigned, and 46 judges were offered buyouts, according to the National Association of Immigration Judges. {snip}
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Kristi Noem, the former Department of Homeland Security secretary, tweeted an ad in November soliciting “deportation judges” who would be paid up to $207,500 annually. “The Trump Administration is calling on YOU to join @TheJusticeDept as a Deportation Judge,” she wrote.
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