Chicago (AP). Federal immigration judges, dismissed by Trump’s administration, submit appeals, seek legal actions, and speak in an unusually public campaign to fight the fight.
Ever since Donald Trump has begun the presidency for the second time, more than 50 immigration judges, from senior leaders to new appointments. Usually bound by a courtroom ornamentation, many are now unrestricted to describe the ends they consider to be illegal and why they believe they were directed.
Their suspected causes include gender discrimination, decisions on immigration cases dealt with Trump’s administration, and the Court of Courts with Senate no. 2 democrat.
“I was concerned with my job and it was fine for me,” former Jennifer Peyton, a former supervisor, told Associated Press this week. “The letter I received, three sentences, explained for no reason why I was forgiven.”
Peyton, after receiving a message in July, On the fourth family holiday, was appointed as a judge in 2016. She considered it her dream job. Peyton was later appointed as an assistant to the chief immigration judge in Chicago, helping to teach, advise and supervise judges. It was visible in the busy city center, greeting outdoor observers.
She mentioned the highest level performance reviews and said she had no disciplinary action. Peyton said she would apply to the Merit Systems Protection Board, an independent government agency Trump.
Peyton’s theories about why it was dismissed includes a “bureaucratic standby list” about people accused of right -wing organization working against Trump’s agenda. She also doubts in June. In the tour of the Court of Corporate, which she gave to the elder Dick Durbin from Illinois.
Durbin blew up Peyton’s termination as “abuse of power”, saying that he had previously visited the part of his duties as his publicly elected official.
Nation’s immigration courts, with a retardation of approximately 3.5 million cases, became the main focus of Donald Trump’s strict immigration effort. According to the International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers, which represents the judges, since January, the shootings have been advance, retirement and transfers, so since January it has left to 106 judges. There are currently about 600 immigration judges.
Several forgiveness, including Pethon, recently conducted numerous interviews at local Chicago TV stations and with national outlets, saying that they now have a platform for their colleagues who remain on the bench.
“Those who are left will feel threatened and very unclear about their future,” said Matt Biggs, president of the Union.
From 2023 Chicago Immigration Judge Carla Espinoza was dismissed as she issued a verdict this month. Her report states that it will be rejected after the end of the two -year trial period with executive institutions for review.
“I’m personally devoted to my career. We are not political bilnters,” she said. “I have a right to cause.”
She believes that shootings have disproportionately affected women and ethnic minorities, including people with Spanish -sounding names as her. She plans to take legal action against the Equal Employment Opportunities Commission, which also changed short.
“There is a very strong model of discriminatory factors,” she said.
Espinoza believes that another cause may be her decision to release a Mexican immigrant accused of a false threatening to kill a short. Ramón Morales Reyes was accused of writing, threatening the Homeland Security Secretary of Novem. However, the statements quickly collapsed when the Wisconsin authorities found that Morales Reyes was actually framed by a man who had previously attacked him.
Espinoza said she was under pressure from public check, media report and noem statements about morality reyes that were not corrected or removed from social media.
“It’s hard to silence the noise and just do your job honestly when it is so much,” she said. “I think I made it. I follow my decision because I was right to release the person who I think was twice suffered.”
The Immigration Review Executive Office, part of the Department of Justice, which supervises the immigration courts, refused to comment on shootings through the agency representative.
Peyton said it was not sure that work as an immigration judge is still her dream job.
“It is important that everyone in our country knows what’s going on in our immigration courts,” she said. “The Department of Justice, to which I joined in 2016, is not the same now.”