{"id":58472,"date":"2025-12-02T15:21:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T15:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/58472\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T15:21:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T15:21:18","slug":"8-immigration-judges-canned-by-trump-admin-after-another-sues-claiming-she-was-discriminated-against","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/58472\/","title":{"rendered":"8 immigration judges canned by Trump admin after another sues, claiming she was discriminated against"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eight Manhattan immigration judges were fired Monday by the Trump administration after the government was hit with a discrimination suit by a recently terminated immigration judge.<\/p>\n<p>The judges who worked out of 26 Federal Plaza in Lower Manhattan were let go,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/immigration-judge-fired-trump-administration-files-lawsuit-claiming\/story?id=128014324\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">according to a report by ABC News<\/a>, citing an official in the National Association of Immigration Judges.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37821345\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/agents-federal-agencies-continue-make-111211813.jpg\" alt=\"Federal agents in plain clothes patrol the halls of immigration court.\" class=\"wp-image-37821345\"  \/>Eight Manhattan immigration judges were fired Monday by the Trump administration after the government was hit with a discrimination suit by a recently terminated immigration judge. Michael Nigro\/Pacific Press\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n<p>Earlier Monday, Tania Nemer sued the Justice Department on the grounds she was terminated from her post as an Ohio immigration judge because of her gender, the fact that she is also a citizen of Lebanon and that she was a Democratic candidate for local office.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37821342\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/security-guards-stand-outside-jacob-112200085.jpg\" alt=\"Security guards outside the Jacob K. Javits Federal Office Building in New York.\" class=\"wp-image-37821342\"  \/>The judges who worked out of 26 Federal Plaza in Lower Manhattan were let go. AP<\/p>\n<p>More than 100 immigration judges have been fired or quit as part of the\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/02\/26\/us-news\/trump-team-orders-agencies-to-get-large-scale-firing-plans-to-doge-by-march-13\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Department of Government Efficiency\u2019s effort<\/a>\u00a0to trim inefficiencies and spending by encouraging federal employees to leave their jobs.<\/p>\n<p>About 3.7 million immigration cases jammed up in the court system.<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Homeland Security has been installing so-called \u201cdeportation judges,\u201d which has drawn criticism from immigration activists who oppose the Trump administration for getting rid of seasoned judges, the outlet reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eight Manhattan immigration judges were fired Monday by the Trump administration after the government was hit with a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58473,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[16471,153,2301,4234,2850,75,84,83,9,24,63,87,1069,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-58472","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manhattan","8":"tag-discrimination","9":"tag-donald-trump","10":"tag-immigration","11":"tag-judges","12":"tag-lawsuits","13":"tag-manhattan","14":"tag-manhattan-headlines","15":"tag-manhattan-news","16":"tag-new-york","17":"tag-new-york-city","18":"tag-nyc","19":"tag-politics","20":"tag-trump","21":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}