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Trump Administration Fires Immigration Court Officials as Crackdown Begins
New York Times ^ | 1/20/25 | Hamed Aleaziz

Posted on 01/20/2025 4:47:06 PM PST by cotton1706

The acting head of the U.S. immigration court system and three other top officials were fired on Monday soon after President Trump took office, according to three people familiar with the matter, in a purge of the top echelon of a critical part of the government’s immigration system.

The abrupt removals signaled that the Trump administration wants to remake the immigration court system, which is housed under the Justice Department, as part of a broader immigration crackdown that Mr. Trump began within minutes of being sworn in for his second term.

Immigration judges oversee an essential part of the system: granting asylum to migrants whose claims pass muster and ordering the deportation of those whose cases do not.

Tom Jawetz, a senior lawyer in the Homeland Security Department in the Biden administration, said the move suggested that Mr. Trump would try to insert loyalists who could undermine veteran career officials into key roles, as he did during his first term.

“Politicals during the first Trump administration ran roughshod over the career civil servants who have dedicated their lives to public service,” Mr. Jawetz said in an interview. “A Day 1 blood bath like this indicates that they don’t intend to change course now.”

The four officials included Mary Cheng, the acting director of the Executive Office of Immigration Review. The three others fired were Sheila McNulty, the chief immigration judge; Lauren Alder Reid, the head of policy for the agency; and Jill Anderson, the general counsel in the Executive Office of Immigration Review.

On Monday evening, Sirce E. Owen, an immigration court official, took over as acting director of the Executive Office of Immigration Review.

“I received an email from the justice management division after 3 p.m. that informed me that I had been removed,” Ms. Alder Reid said

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Constitution/Conservatism; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: alderreid; asylum; cleaninghouse; elections; eoir; immigrationcourt; immigrationjudges; jawetz; laurenalderreid; marycheng; owen; sheilamcnulty; sirceowen; tomjawetz
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Bureaucrats crying already.
1 posted on 01/20/2025 4:47:06 PM PST by cotton1706
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To: cotton1706

Maybe Mary sucked at her job.


2 posted on 01/20/2025 4:50:05 PM PST by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: cotton1706

The AG has the responsibility for assign immigration judges.
Should be interesting.


3 posted on 01/20/2025 5:05:50 PM PST by stylin19a ("If You Can Read This, Thank a Teacher. If You Can Read It In English, Thank a Veteran" )
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To: cotton1706

4 Broads, what are the odds?

Time to review every single ruling made during the Biden and Obama regimes, and make sure justice was really served.


4 posted on 01/20/2025 5:06:00 PM PST by End Times Sentinel (In the conflict between the stone and the stream, the stream will always prevail.)
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To: cotton1706

Sounds like a good start.


5 posted on 01/20/2025 5:07:00 PM PST by EastTexasTraveler
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To: cotton1706

I remember during his first transition an agenda was posted here by the Trump team. Reading through it at the time it looked like it had been crafted here at FR. I said at the time if even half of it gets done we’d have the most conservative admin that I could recall. It was staggering to read at the time after 8 years of 0.


6 posted on 01/20/2025 5:07:10 PM PST by xp38
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To: cotton1706

“A Day 1 blood bath like this indicates that they don’t intend to change course now.”

Get used to it, Jawetz.


7 posted on 01/20/2025 5:08:19 PM PST by SharpRightTurn (“Giving money & power to government is like giving whiskey & car keys to teenage boys” P.J. O’Rourke)
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To: cotton1706

This is the way it’s got to be done. Quickly and with no fuss. Let the left whine and moan about it. Also let them waste their time and money in litigation if they want to pursue it.


8 posted on 01/20/2025 5:08:52 PM PST by DouglasKC
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To: cotton1706

Deep state takes another hit. Keep ‘em coming.


9 posted on 01/20/2025 5:09:24 PM PST by Billthedrill
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To: cotton1706

Dedicated their lives - BS. Establishing a national socialist foothold into the US bureaucracy and enriching themselves.


10 posted on 01/20/2025 5:14:53 PM PST by Mlheureux
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To: DouglasKC

“This is the way it’s got to be done. Quickly and with no fuss.”

Absolutely.

Republicans may not have control of congress in two years. This administration needs to move with a sense of urgency.

Let the blitzkrieg begin...


11 posted on 01/20/2025 5:22:21 PM PST by Mr. N. Wolfe
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To: cotton1706

Hummm, all Dem. lacky women folk.


12 posted on 01/20/2025 5:26:31 PM PST by DAC21
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“career civil servants who have dedicated their lives to public service,”

They are the enemy.

Transfer them all out of DC.
Location pay cuts for all.


13 posted on 01/20/2025 5:28:05 PM PST by Macoozie (Roll MAGA, roll!)
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To: cotton1706

Don’t you mean he fired Invasion Officials?


14 posted on 01/20/2025 5:28:47 PM PST by Whatever Works (The real power lies in who counts the votes and controls the teleprompter.)
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To: cotton1706

I’m grateful that Trump acts so quickly on his main camping promise against illegal immigration and against the system that directly and/or indirectly supports it.

Illegal immigration has damaged both America and Europe.

Concerning refugees who have been granted temporary stay, let’s underline the fact that it must be on a TEMPORARY basis. Most never return back to their home-countries even after the problems there have been settled.


15 posted on 01/20/2025 5:30:09 PM PST by USA-FRANCE (The Iran-Russia-North Korea-China Alliance is at war against Israel and Ukraine. Let's not forget.)
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To: USA-FRANCE

Typo correction: camping = campaigning


16 posted on 01/20/2025 5:31:33 PM PST by USA-FRANCE (The Iran-Russia-North Korea-China Alliance is at war against Israel and Ukraine. Let's not forget.)
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To: cotton1706

“Mary Cheng, the acting director of the Executive Office of Immigration Review”

Her Government website link......”cannot be found”

https://www.justice.gov/eoir/staff-profile/meet-deputy-director

Hahahaha!


17 posted on 01/20/2025 5:34:19 PM PST by DAC21
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To: cotton1706
Mr. Trump would try to insert loyalists who could undermine veteran career officials into key roles, as he did during his first term. “Politicals during the first Trump administration ran roughshod over the career civil servants who have dedicated their lives to public service,”

Tell us you are a rogue out of control deepstate bureaucrat without telling us you are a rogue out of control deepstate bureaucrat.

18 posted on 01/20/2025 5:35:07 PM PST by AndyJackson
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To: cotton1706

This has been a marvelous day. Even better than I anticipated and I have a vivid imagination.

President Trump knows a whole lot more now than he did eight years ago.


19 posted on 01/20/2025 5:36:57 PM PST by Preachin' (I stand with many voters who will never vote for a pro abortion candidate.)
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To: USA-FRANCE

Did you notice the AH at the times refers to President Trump as Mr Trump?


20 posted on 01/20/2025 5:37:12 PM PST by Ronald77
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