Three of Hawaii’s four congressional delegates sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security condemning ...

Budget cuts are stripping legal support from hundreds of vulnerable immigrants. With funding for legal programs slashed and ...

The Executive Office for Immigration Review, or EOIR, which runs the immigration court system, fired at least two dozen more immigration judges and supervising judges in February, ...

This month, the EOIR called on judges to terminate asylum cases in which applicants were deemed "legally deficient." The policy memo allows judges to fast-track and close cases without a hearing.

Earlier this month, EOIR posted several openings for immigration judge positions across the country, including in courts where judges were fired. Matt Biggs, ...

"EOIR adjudicators have the duty to efficiently manage their dockets," according to the memo, sent by acting Director Sirce Owen. "It is clear from the almost 4 million pending cases on EOIR's ...

Among those removed, according to the source, were Mary Cheng, the acting director of EOIR since March 2024. Before that, Cheng served as EOIR deputy director.

More than a dozen immigration judges were fired on Friday, coinciding with President Donald Trump's promise to trim the federal workforce. A union official told the Associated Press that 13 judges ...

The EOIR did not immediately respond to POLITICO’s request for comment. Both Republicans and Democrats support more judges and support staff, and there was an effort during the first Trump ...

EOIR used to be considered outside political give-and-take, but when Joseph R. Biden took over, his administration moved to weed out people it saw as too tied to President Trump.

Their firings were signed by acting Attorney General James McHenry, another career executive who served as EOIR’s director under Trump and hired Anderson when she joined the SES.

The EOIR did not respond to a request for comment. Johnson and Bush-Joseph said that most people don’t have lawyers, meaning many asylum applications might not be as strong as they could be due ...