For most people — if you don’t like the results, all you can do is hope things turn out better next time. But if you’re President Donald Trump, you can simply change who makes the decisions. After his immigration drive was not moving quickly enough, Trump has now decided to hire immigration judges who have no experience in immigration law.
Contrary to popular assumption, immigration judges are not part of the judiciary branch but rather the executive branch. NBC reports that Trump has been exerting his control over the autonomy of the judges because of this. The judges had previously numbered about 650 individuals with at least 10 years of experience in immigration law. But after Trump decided they were not sufficiently supporting his immigration agenda, he fired about 100 judges, making it increasingly untenable for the courts to keep up with the surge in contentious immigration cases.
