An immigration judge appointed by former President Joe Biden is losing after he has been fired by President Donald Trump.
“It was political,” said Judge Kerry Doyle, according to a WGBH report.
Doyle, who worked In Massachusettswas one of the more than 20 immigration rights that were fired in recent days without explanation, told Doyle that he received an e -mail from the Executive Office of Immigration Review (Eoir) last week who read that the agency had “established it “Her was” not “not in the best interest in the desk. “
Administrative judges such as Doyle do not have the same protection against shooting as federal judges, who are appointed by the president and are confirmed by the Senate to fill lifelong conditions.
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Split image of judge Kerry Doyle and President Donald Trump. (Ice/Getty Images)
Nevertheless, Doyle WGBH told in an interview that Trump’s decision will undermine confidence in the nation’s immigration system.
“When you start making it politics, it really blows up and blows up the confidence of people in the system,” said Doyle, who previously helped in leading a judicial challenge against Trump’s travel ban for people from several Muslim-Meerness countries . “None of us was there to manage a political agenda. We were there to do our work.”
Doyle noted that many judges Near Boston have served at the Immigration Court in multiple administrations, with the argument that those appointed to fulfill the roles do not act in a part -time manner.
“It would be problematic to be political, because what civil servants do is to take the public – we swear an oath to the constitution,” she said.
But the dismissals have expressed concern that the already great backlog of Immigration matters It will now take even longer to erase, with the International Federation of Professional & Technical Engineers President Matthew Biggs points out that a single judge can rule over 500 to 700 cases per year.
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This aerial photo taken on December 8, 2023 shows the border wall of the US-Mexico in Sasabe, Arizona. (Valerie Macon/AFP via Getty images)
“Look up the definition of ‘hypocrisy’. It is” if someone says one but does the other. ” Defendering immigration judges When we need more judges to maintain our immigration laws by this government is a perfect example of hypocrisy, “Briggs, whose organization represents the approximately 700 immigration judges of the nation, WGBH said.
Massachusetts alone has a backlog of approximately 160,000 cases, the report notes. Doyle was ready to take over the affairs of a colleague who had just left the court, which means that some of those cases could now have a longer timeline.
“Those things will have to be distributed to all other judges. So it will be even more work for them,” she said. “They need every judge, every available person. And so it will simply make the court more overloaded. People are already working very hard.”
The report notes that the recent dismissals are not the first time Biden took office.
The then President Joe Biden during a bilateral meeting with Jens Stoltenberg, Secretary General of the North Atlantic Convention Organization (NATO), not shown in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Monday 17 June 2024. (Chris Kleponis/CNP/Bloomberg via Getty images)
But Doyle had less a problem with that decision, the reasoning of Biden’s decision was less likely to be ‘politically motivated’.
“Maybe it’s just that every president wants his imprimatur and people who will follow his agenda. I don’t know,” Doyle said. “I don’t think I would call that politically motivated if they think they have a better idea for America and people who come across the border, treat reasonably well.”
