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These Immigrants Became Immigration Court Judges. Trump Just Laid Them Off.

Former immigration court judge Carmen Maria Rey Caldas poses for a portrait in Lower Manhattan.

Judge David Kim was on the bench for a merits hearing on an asylum case at 26 Federal Plaza Thursday afternoon when he received an email informing him he’d been laid off, “effective today.”  “I had to stop the hearing,” he recalled.  Kim was one of two immigration judges, both immigrants themselves, in New York City […]

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