Around 1,700 people have applied to become immigration judges with the Trump administration, after a provocative social media ad campaign from the Departments of Justice and Homeland Security that called for new “deportation judges” and featured stills from the dystopian satire Judge Dredd.
The White House, as part of its deportation campaign, has pushed to speed up processing through the nation’s perennially backlogged immigration court system, which has a queue of about 3.6 million cases at present.
