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 judges since coming into office in January.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s the latest move in a wave of terminations targeting immigration judges across the country, bringing the total number of fired judges in San Francisco up to a dozen.<\/p>\n
According to the sources, the list of fired judges includes: Patrick Savage, Amber George, Jeremiah Johnson, Shuting Chen, Louis Gordon.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cFiring judges for doing their jobs is not about efficiency, it\u2019s about control,\u201d said one former San Francisco immigration judge speaking on the condition of anonymity. \u201cThere\u2019s a name for that.\u201d<\/p>\n
San Francisco, according to the union that represents immigration judges, has been hit particularly hard by the Trump administration. Just nine judges remain listed on the court\u2019s website, down from 21 in January.<\/p>\n
\u201cTheir strategy here is to remove the current immigration judges, as many as they can, and replace them,\u201d said Matt Biggs, president of the International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers (IFPTE), which represents immigration judges, in an October interview with NBC Bay Area.<\/p>\n
The Executive Office for Immigration Review, which employs immigration judges and is part of the Department of Justice, has not yet responded to NBC Bay Area\u2019s request for comment.<\/p>\n
The firings come as the DOJ posted advertisements in recent days seeking to hire \u201cdeportation judges,\u201d and listed San Francisco as a destination they\u2019re looking to send new judges. The job posting also lists the immigration courts in Concord and Sacramento, as well as five others.<\/p>\n
\u201cHelp write the next chapter of America,\u201d the advertisement reads. \u201cApply today to become a deportation judge.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMake decisions with generational consequences,\u201d the ad goes on to state. \u201cEnsure that only aliens with legally meritorious claims are allowed to remain.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Trump administration fired five San Francisco immigration judges Friday, according to multiple sources with direct knowledge of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64590,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[13,101,103,102,104,106,105,1695],"class_list":{"0":"post-64589","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-francisco","8":"tag-politics","9":"tag-san-francisco","10":"tag-san-francisco-headlines","11":"tag-san-francisco-news","12":"tag-sf","13":"tag-sf-headlines","14":"tag-sf-news","15":"tag-trump-administration"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}