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1 week ago

Democrats seek limits on who can serve as immigration judges amid mass layoffs

Democrats propose legal limits on temporary immigration judge appointments requiring appellate, administrative, or 10 years' immigration-law experience after mass firings and relaxed experience rules.
US politics
fromABA Journal
3 months ago

Wanted: Temporary immigration judges, no experience necessary

The Department of Justice will allow any attorney, including DOD lawyers, to serve as temporary immigration judges to address a roughly 4.1 million-case backlog.
fromTruthout
3 months ago

DOJ Says Temporary Immigration Judges No Longer Need Immigration Experience

The new rule, which went into effect on Thursday, permits the director of the Executive Office of Immigration Review (EOIR), with the U.S. Attorney General's approval, "to designate or select any attorney to serve" as a temporary immigration judge (TIJ) for a renewable six-month term. The notice states that the DOJ "declines to adopt any limitations on the number of extensions of the six-month periods or otherwise cap the length of a temporary appointment." The EOIR conducts immigration court proceedings, appellate reviews, and administrative hearings.
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