Immigration

Independent, UK -   A California-based immigration judge has filed a wrongful-termination lawsuit against the Department of Justice, alleging retaliation tied to protected activity such as reporting misconduct or refusing unlawful directives. Immigration judges work for DOJ’s Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR), a structure that blurs the line between neutral judging and executive-branch enforcement priorities.

Reports describe a broader pattern: 103 immigration judges terminated nationally since Trump took office, with 28 in California.

The lawsuit lands amid rising scrutiny of courthouse arrests and limits on public access at immigration courts, especially in Sacramento.

 

The Guardian -  The US government has targeted thousands of parents like LT for deportation since Donald Trump took office in January 2025. A Guardian analysis of government records has found that, during the first seven months of his presidency, the administration arrested the parents of at least 27,000 children. During this period in 2025, the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) was deporting about twice as many parents each month compared with 2024.

The records do not detail how many of these children were detained or deported with their parents, and how many families were split up. But the data provides one of the starkest views yet of how Trump’s mass deportation scheme has affected parents and children. In thousands of cases, DHS sought to deport parents who had a different citizenship or nationality than their children, creating major legal and logistical barriers to keeping families together.

The Guardian’s analysis also revealed:

During the first seven months of 2025, the administration arrested 18,400 parents – including 15,000 fathers and 3,000 mothers. They are the parents of 27,000 to 32,000 children.

The administration arrested the parents of at least 12,000 US citizen children.

Nearly 7,500 fathers and 1,000 mothers who were arrested had a different nationality than at least one of their children. In about half of these families, siblings had different citizenships from each other.

On average, the Trump administration has been arresting about 2,300 parents each month and deporting 1,400 parents every month. The Biden administration, in comparison, deported about 700 per month in 2024.