An immigrant judge appointed by former President Joe Biden is assaulting him after being fired by President Donald Trump.
“It was political,” Judge Kelly Doyle said, according to a report by WGBH.
Doyle, who worked in Massachusetts, was one of more than 20 immigration judges who were fired for the last few days without explanation. “She wasn't 'she' and not the agency's greatest profit.
Administrative judges like Doyle are not protected in the same way as federal judges appointed by the president and confirmed by the Senate to meet lifetime conditions.
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Dividing the image of Judge Kelly Doyle and President Donald Trump. (Ice/Getty Images)
Nevertheless, Doyle told WGBH in an interview that Trump's decision would undermine faith in the country's immigration system.
“If you start making it political, it really blows up the system and blows up people's beliefs about it,” he said, adding that Trump's 2017 travel ban on people from multiple Muslim countries previously Doyle, who led the court's challenge, said. “None of us were there to promote our political agenda. We were there to do our job.”
Doyle said many judges in the Boston area served immigration courts across multiple administrations, and argued that those appointed to fill roles would not act partisanly.
“What civil servants do is they serve the masses, so it's going to matter that it's political — we're pledging our pledge to the Constitution,” she said.
However, the shooting raised concerns that it would take even longer for an already large backlog of immigration cases to be cleared. Matthew Biggs, president of the international Federation of Professional Engineers, points out that a single judge can control 500-700 cases a year.
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This aerial photograph, taken on December 8, 2023, shows the US-Mexico border wall in Sasabe, Arizona. (Valerie Macon/AFP via Getty Images)
“Find out the definition of “hypocrisy.” It's “when someone says one thing, but does another.” The firing of immigration judges when more judges are needed to enforce immigration laws by this administration is a perfect example of hypocrisy.
Massachusetts alone has around 160,000 backlogs, the report says. Doyle was ready to take over the case of a colleague who had just left the court. This means that some of those cases may now be extended timelines.
“These cases will have to be distributed to all other judges, so that will be even more work for them,” she said. “They need to be available to all judges, all people. And it just makes the courts more crowded. People are already working very hard.”
The report notes that recent terminations are not the first time the new administration has fired a judge, and Trump-employed judge Judge Marna Rusher was fired shortly after Biden took office 2021 It points out an example from 2019.
President Joe Biden was founded at a bilateral meeting with Jens Stoltenberg, executive director of the North Atlantic Treaty Agency (NATO) at the elliptical office of the White House in Washington, DC, on Monday, June 17, 2024. . (Chris Kleponis/CNP/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
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However, Doyle reasoned that the decision was less problematic and that Biden's decision was unlikely to be “politically motivated.”
“Maybe each president just wants to have countless agendas and people following his agendas. I don't know,” Doyle said. “I don't think they'll be politically motivated enough to think they have a better idea for America and treat people who come across the border fairly.”
