Edwin Pieters is searching for reasons why the Biden administration fired him as an immigration judge.
He said he got satisfactory reviews during his time as a judge. And his decisions were roughly 50-50 in terms of approvals or rejections, so he doesn’t think that can be it.
Mr. Pieters said the Executive Office of Immigration Review, the Justice Department agency that runs the immigration courts, investigated him after a lawyer complained about his Twitter account. The Office of Special Counsel also probed him for a Hatch Act violation — conducting politics while on the job — because of Twitter posts complaining about Democratic politicians.
Mr. Pieters said when he joined the bench in 2021, he was given clear signals by colleagues that the way to stay in the agency’s good graces was to “grant everything.”He said that conflicted with his belief that a judge was there to “see justice done.” The purge goes beyond line judges. Of 10 senior executive posts at EOIR, six of them have seen upheaval since Mr. Biden took office, according to the department source who also said that sort of upheaval was unheard of before the Biden era.Whatever the reason behind the changes, it has done nothing to solve the major issue facing EOIR: The staggering backlog of cases, fueled by the record surge of illegal immigrants rushing the border under President Biden.
Deportation is ordered in about half of all cases, while the rest are a mixture of migrants giving up their claims or Homeland Security deciding not to pursue a case right now. In those cases, the migrants are still on the docket.
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