The terminations were enacted by the acting director of the Executive Office for Immigration Review at the Justice Department, which oversees immigration courts. A union representing immigration ...

The Department of Justice's Executive Office for Immigration Review failed to develop a "strategic workforce plan" to address its staffing shortfall while its courts are suffering a backlog of 1.8 ...

The Department of Justice has quietly changed hiring procedures ... bodies is common in almost every judicial system, and EOIR is no different.” When the department posted the six board ...

“Many board members have viewed themselves as appellate immigration judges for years, and EOIR first proposed such a designation in 2000,” the Justice Department said in a May 27 statement.