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
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Maybe Mary sucked at her job.
The AG has the responsibility for assign immigration judges.
Should be interesting.
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.
Sounds like a good start.
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.
“A Day 1 blood bath like this indicates that they don’t intend to change course now.”
Get used to it, Jawetz.
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.
Deep state takes another hit. Keep ‘em coming.
Dedicated their lives - BS. Establishing a national socialist foothold into the US bureaucracy and enriching themselves.
“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...
Hummm, all Dem. lacky women folk.
“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.
Don’t you mean he fired Invasion Officials?
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.
Typo correction: camping = campaigning
“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!
Tell us you are a rogue out of control deepstate bureaucrat without telling us you are a rogue out of control deepstate bureaucrat.
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.
Did you notice the AH at the times refers to President Trump as Mr Trump?
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