How Trump Purged Immigration Judges to Speed Up Deportations

The Trump administration has systematically pressured the nation’s immigration judges, threatening them with disciplinary action if they do not deport more people and firing those seen as insufficiently supportive of the president’s aggressive enforcement agenda, a New York Times investigation has found.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/us/politics/trump-miller-immigration-judges-purge.html