President Donald Trump’s deputies have fired more than 20 immigration lawyers from the Department of Justice, prompting an uproar in pro-migration media outlets.
President Joe Biden’s deputies recently hired the lawyers to act as pro-migration judges in the nation’s immigration courts, whose roughly 700 judges are now under the control of Trump’s justice department, now headed by Pam Bondi.
In 2021, Biden fired some of the lawyers Trump had hired for his immigration courts, just as President Barack Obama fired some of the lawyers hired by his predecessor, President George W. Bush.
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The media’s uproar tends to obscure deeper problems in the courts, noted Andrew Arthur, a former immigration judge working for the Center for Immigration Studies.
The outcome of migrant requests for asylum and other benefits vary wildly from judge to judge, even with the regional courts, Arthur told Breitbart News. “Nothing explains the huge discrepancy between judges in the same court who have wildly different asylum grant rates,” he said, adding, “it is incumbent upon the Trump administration to examine to see why this exists,” he added.
Moreover, a prior investigation under Bush showed much evidence of fraud with the courts’ asylum decisions, Arthur said. However, the investigation was quickly shut down by Obama’s deputies, he said. {snip}
Immigration judges are not part of the constitution’s third branch, the federal judiciary.
Instead, they are selected and hired by the Department of Justice, which is part of the executive branch run by the president. The judges are expected to comply with each president’s regulatory adjustments to the Congress’s immigration laws.
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