Immigration judge named former President Joe Biden goes out after the release President Donald Trump.
“It was political,” Judge Kerry Doyle said, according to the WGBH report.
Doyle, who worked in MassachusettsHe was one of over 20 immigration judges who had been discharged in recent days without explanation, and Doyle said he had received the E -Last week from the Executive Office for Immigration (EOIR) who read the Agency “found that the retention was” not “is not” not in the best interests of the agency. “
Administrative judges like Doyle do not have the same protection against shooting as federal judges, which the president nomits, and has confirmed the Senate to meet life conditions.
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Divided picture of Judge Kerry Doyle and President Donald Trump. (Ice Pictures/Getty)
Still, Doyle told the WGBH interview that Trump’s decision will undermine faith in the immigration system of the nation.
“If you start to make it political, it really smokes a system and blows people’s faith into the system,” said Doyle, who earlier helped to lead a court challenge against Trump’s ban on travel for 2017. For people from several Muslim countries. “None of us were here to drive a political plan. We were there to do our job.”
Doyle noted that many judges In the Boston area They served at the immigration court in several administrations, claiming that they were appointed to fulfill their roles do not act in a partisan way.
“It would be problematic for it to be political, because what the civil servants do to the public – we swear the oath of the Constitution,” she said.
But the shooting caused concern that it was already a big backlog Immigration cases It will now take even longer, with the president of the International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers Matthew Biggs, pointing out that the judge could have judged 500 to 700 cases a year.
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This air picture was shot on December 8, 2023. It shows the US-Mexico border wall in Sasabe in Arizona. (Valerie Macon/AFP via Getty Images)
“Look for the definition of” hypocrisy “. This is” when one says one thing, but it does the other. whose organization represents approximately 700 immigration judges of the nation.
Massachusetts itself has a backlog of about 160,000 cases, the report states. Doyle was ready to take over the cases of a colleague who had just left the court, which means that some of these cases could be on an extended time lane.
“These cases will have to surrender to all other judges. So it will be even more work for them,” she said. “They need every judge, every person who is available. And so they will only make the court congested. People are already working hard.”
The report notes that recent dismissals are not the first time the new administration has released the judges, indicating for example 2021. Biden assumed his duty.
The then President Joe Biden during a bilateral meeting with Jens Stoltenberg, a general secretary of the North Atlantic Agreement (NATO) organization, which was not shown, in the oval office of the White House in Washington, DC, US, Monday, June 17, 2024. (Chris Kleponis/CNP/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
But Doyle had less problems with that decision, and concluding that Biden’s decision was less likely to be “politically motivated”.
“Maybe it’s just that every president wants to have his own impimatur and people who will follow his agenda. I don’t know,” Doyle said. “I don’t think I would call it politically motivated as much as they think they have a better idea for America and act fairly with people who come across the border.”
