NBC News’ Gabe Gutierrez spoke to four immigration judges about the rise in migrant crossings at the U.S. border. The court system is overwhelmed with just 500 immigration judges nationwide who preside over asylum cases and decide who gets deported.
The Trump administration fired four top officials at the Justice Department’s Executive Office of Immigration Review, which oversees U.S. immigration courts, late Monday. The officials were the chief immigration judge, Sheila McNulty; the acting director of the Executive Office of Immigration Review, Mary Cheng; the office's general counsel, Jill Anderson; and its head of policy, Lauren Alder Reid. All were civil servants, not political appointees.
Our continued pursuit of justice will not be diminished.' The four fired officials had decades of experience leading the nation's overburdened immigration courts. The Justice Department employs more than 700 immigration judges, who decide whether migrants seeking asylum in the United States can remain in the country legally. The court system faces a record backlog of more than 3 million cases.
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