San Francisco immigration judges Shuting Chen and Jeremiah Johnson weren’t expecting to be fired when they showed up to work ...

For three immigration judges, the day took a similar turn. Kyra Lilien, who was hired in 2023, was presiding in a courtroom in Concord, Calif., in July when she paused the hearing of an immigrant ...

The Trump administration fired five San Francisco immigration judges Friday, according to multiple sources with direct knowledge of the firings, and has now terminated more than half of the court’s ...

Department of Justice leadership directed federal prosecutors to give them examples by Friday of hurdles they have encountered with judges when working on cases about attacks on law enforcement and ...

The Trump administration has begun referring to immigration judges as "deportation judges" in a recruitment push to hire more officials to carry out the president's mass deportation campaign. The ...

Kyra Lilien, who was hired in 2023, was presiding in a courtroom in Concord, Calif., in July when she paused the hearing of an immigrant seeking asylum to read an email. “I told them that we were not ...