Mike Gallagher introduced the Empowering Immigration Courts Act, giving immigration judges authority to impose criminal fines for contempt.
The union representing immigration judges working for the federal government is speaking out against the firing of at least five judges who were appointed by former President Donald Trump.
Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) and 35 of her Republican colleagues are calling on President Joe Biden to remove a newly-appointed immigration judge after the judge showed hostility toward immigration enforcement, Breitbart News has learned.
President Joe Biden’s administration has ordered federal immigration judges to stop using the terms “alien” and “illegal alien” to describe illegal aliens living in the United States.
A convicted Nigerian criminal successfully evaded deportation from the UK after claiming that he is bisexual just hours before he was set to be kicked out of the country. The unnamed man was convicted of fraud in 2015 and was
Judges appointed by President Donald Trump’s deputies are filling up the immigration courts, and have reversed the Obama-era tilt towards pro-migrant decisions.
President Donald Trump’s new immigration judges are far more likely to reject migrants’ requests for asylum than are the judges prior presidents picked.
The Trump administration has reportedly taken steps to decertify the National Association of Immigration Judges (NAIJ) union that has been critical of the president and his policies in the past.
Appearing Monday on CNN’s New Day, John Sandweg, a former acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) during the Obama administration, referred to President Donald Trump’s proposal to eliminate immigration judges as “the single dumbest idea I have ever heard.”
Immigration expert Jessica Vaughan advised Donald Trump to pressure Mexico against allowing entry to migrant caravans travelling to the U.S.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions spoke to 44 new immigration judges, the largest class ever, Monday at Executive Office of Immigration Review (EOIR) headquarters in Falls Church, Virginia.
President Donald Trump, in a series of Thursday morning tweets, called on Congress to send all illegal aliens home without “long and costly” trials. “FIX OUR INSANE IMMIGRATION LAWS NOW!” he urged Congress.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions exercised his authority Monday as the ultimate reviewer of the immigration court system to overrule a series of Obama era decisions that were allowing the radical expansion of the American asylum system.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions issued a sweeping restriction Thursday on so-called “administrative closures” in the immigration courts that often allow aliens facing deportation to remain in the country indefinitely as their cases fall off the docket, never to be rescheduled.
Immigrant groups are claiming that an additional 28 members of the “migrant caravan” have been allowed to cross through the port of entry in San Ysidro, California. This brings the total who have reportedly crossed to 53.
