Earlier this month, Kerry Doyle sat in a Boston-area courtroom to observe a routine deportation hearing — one of thousands of similar proceedings that take place in immigration courts across the country each day. It was the final step before Doyle, 59, would herself join the ranks of America’s roughly 700 immigration judges. She was badly needed — the immigration court system has a backlog of some 3.7 million cases, with more piling up each day. As the hearing got underway, Doyle glanced down at her email and spotted a message in her inbox with an attachment called “Termination.” Days before she was to be sworn in at one of the busiest immigration courts in the country, Doyle was fired as part of the Trump’s administration’s first wave of mass
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President Joe Biden announced a sweeping plan on Tuesday that could offer potential citizenship to hundreds of thousands of immigrants without legal status in the U.S. This move aims to balance his recent border enforcement measures that drew criticism from advocates and Democratic lawmakers. Biden revealed that his administration would allow certain U.S. citizens’ spouses […]