President Donald Trump quietly fired four senior officials at the Justice Department's immigration agency as he worked his way through his first day in office.
At noon on Monday, Trump raised his right hand and took the oath of office as president of the United States, the second time in eight years he has taken the oath. Immediately after the inauguration, Mr. Trump got right to work, theatrically signing an executive order issuing pardons and commutations for the defendants on January 6th.
The Times first ran an article about the fired officials, apparently accusing President Trump of wanting to “reshape the immigration court system as part of a broader immigration crackdown.”
One step President Trump took that received less attention was firing the four leaders of the Office of Immigration Review. According to a report from new york timesMary Chen, Acting EOIR Director. Sheila McNulty, Chief Immigration Judge from April 2023. Lauren Alder Reed, Policy Director; and EOIR General Counsel Jill Anderson are all currently unemployed.
Alder Reed confirmed to the Times that he had been “removed” from his position just hours after Trump took office. “I received an email from the Judicial Management Division shortly after 3 p.m. informing me that I had been removed,” she said in an email Monday.
Mr. Chen first joined EOIR in 2009 and was appointed acting director in March 2024. As of Monday night, her Justice Department online profile is no longer active. ABC News Reported. At some point Monday night, Searcy Owen, described as an “immigration court official,” was appointed as the new acting director of EOIR.
The Times first ran an article about the fired officials, apparently accusing President Trump of wanting to “reshape the immigration court system as part of a broader immigration crackdown.” Tom Jawetz, who served as a senior attorney at the Department of Homeland Security during the Biden administration, similarly told the Times that Trump just wants to give his supporters more room to implement his policies.
“The politics of the first Trump administration were harsh on career civil servants who had dedicated their lives to public service,” Jawetz said. “This first-day disaster shows they have no intention of changing course now.”
While President Trump's stance on immigration seems to have fueled dissatisfaction among some Biden supporters and left-wing media, it resonates with American voters who have been considering immigration. one of the most important issues When I go to vote in November. President Trump's call to build a wall along the southern border also helped him become president for the first time in 2017.
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