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Shuting Chen was conducting an asylum hearing for a family of three Venezuelan siblings, listening to testimony about how they had fled persecution in their home country, when an email popped up on one of her computer screens. The subject line read "Notice of Termination."
She felt like all the air had been sucked out of her lungs, she told the Chronicle.
For months, she had been mentally preparing for this moment as she helped one colleague after another who had been fired by the Trump administration pack up their offices. She took on hundreds of additional motions from the dockets of her terminated colleagues, working weekends and nights to shoulder the exponential workload.
Chen is one of 12 San Francisco immigration court judges who have been fired by the Department of Justice this year, leaving a skeleton staff of just nine judges to handle the workload of 21. None have been replaced, but the Trump administration has advertised open positions, including in San Francisco, as "deportation judges."
The terminations are part of an unprecedented axing of immigration judges nationwide, who are employees of the Department of Justice's Executive Office for Immigration Review, responsible for hearing asylum claims and other appeals for immigration benefits from people in deportation proceedings.
At least 90 immigration judges have been fired this year, a previously unheard of number, even as the backlog of immigration cases in court continues to grow to a record 3.4 million cases. Asylum-seekers in San Francisco were already waiting an average of four and a half years for an asylum hearing, a Chronicle analysis previously found, a number that's only expected to grow in the face of judicial shortages.
Good start....90 less dem judges letting illegals out to roam and ruin our country.
Seems like she had been coddling illegals for a long time.
"She ran her own immigration practice for six years, providing, among other services, removal defense and asylum assistance".
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