Trump fires top immigration court officials
On his first day, the Republican dismissed the four women who oversaw a system that must resolve 3.5 million cases
Donald Trump is seeking to rapidly transform the U.S. immigration system. On the day of his inauguration, the president removed the four officials at the Justice Department’s Executive Office for Immigration Review, which is responsible for overseeing the 71 federal immigration courts, a system that faces a backlog of 3.5 million pending cases. This action follows the signing of a dozen measures on his first day in the White House, which drastically restrict migrants’ access to the U.S., whether they are undocumented or legal refugees.
