‘Everyone has a breaking point’: the immigration judges at the sharp end of Trump’s deportation drive
increasing pressure on immigration judges the Trump administration deemed biased “in favor of the alien”. Photograph: Demetrius Freeman
Since January 2025, the Trump administration has fired more than [113 immigration judges](https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-fires-more-immigration-judges-including-two-who-blocked-deporting-pro-2026-04-13/), pushed