A San Francisco-based federal immigration judge was fired after she questioned Trump administration legal tactics and resisted a request from Immigration and Customs Enforcement to fast-track the deportation of a teen asylum seeker, a lawsuit claims.
In the complaint, filed Thursday in federal court, Chloe Dillon alleges she was fired roughly 48 hours after sending a message to a superior relating her concerns over an August 2025 incident. In the message, Dillon wrote that she was alarmed a teenage asylum seeker had been arrested by ICE after they left her courtroom, where she had just delayed ICE’s request to dismiss the individual’s case and place them into expedited removal proceedings.
