“Today, we are onboarding the largest immigration judge class in agency history.”
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With the aim of speeding up deportations, the Department of Justice announced on Thursday that it swore over 80 immigration judges, a record number, as the Trump administration seeks to oust a historic number of illegal immigrants.
According to The Daily Wire, the Executive Office for Immigration Review said over 80 judges were hired, denoting the largest immigration judge class in the office’s history. The move will allegedly permit deportation cases to speed through the system, allowing Washington to have a leaner, meaner immigration agenda, after White House border czar Tom Homan revealed earlier this week that a record 800,000 illegal immigrants have already been removed from the United States.
“The Trump administration is committed to reestablishing an immigration judge corps that is dedicated to restoring the rule [of] law in our nation’s immigration system,” said Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche. “Today, we are onboarding the largest immigration judge class in agency history.”
“This could only happen thanks to President Trump’s decisive leadership and commitment to securing our borders. I also applaud EOIR’s [Executive Office of Immigration Review] leadership team for helping facilitate these hiring efforts and recruiting highly qualified and talented personnel in record time.”
According to the story by the Daily Wire, the new class includes 77 permanent judges and 5 temporary ones.
.@DOJ_EOIR Announces 77 Immigration Judges and 5 Temporary Immigration Judges: LARGEST CLASS IN AGENCY'S HISTORY
— U.S. Department of Justice (@TheJusticeDept) May 21, 2026
“The Trump administration is committed to reestablishing an immigration judge corps that is dedicated to restoring the rule to the law in our nation’s immigration… pic.twitter.com/JRSIMZuNiF
The hiring of the new judges is the follow up to President Donald Trump’s return to the White House, when he started a mass deportation effort. His administration initiated a mass firing of immigration judges who had mostly granted asylum at higher rates.
Since Trump’s return, administration officials have fired more than 100 immigration judges who granted asylum in 46% of cases, according to The New York Times.
Immigration judges have completed more than one million cases since Trump’s second inauguration, reducing the pending caseload by more than 447,000 cases, according to the Justice Department. There are currently roughly 3.53 million pending cases sitting in the immigration courts, down from roughly four million.
The Justice Department said it’s the sharpest decrease in the court’s history.
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