JUST IN: President Trump FIRES Multiple Immigration Judges Who Blocked Deportations

Since returning to office, President Trump has been purging the courts of left-wing activist immigration judges who go against his mandate and block deportations.

Over the past several months, over one-hundred of these rogue judges have been fired!

Grok has the numbers:

During President Trump’s second term (which began in January 2025), the Trump administration has fired more than 100 immigration judges as part of a broader effort to reshape the Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) immigration courts.

Key Details on Firings

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• Most sources, including NPR’s independent tally, report nearly 100 firings in 2025 (often cited as 98 or “nearly 100”).
• By early 2026, the total had reached more than 100 (with figures like at least 104 or over 100 commonly referenced across outlets such as the New York Times, Reuters, and the National Association of Immigration Judges).
• This represents roughly one-seventh of the approximately 700–750 immigration judges (including assistant chief immigration judges) on the bench at the start of the term.

Adding to these numbers, four immigration judges were axed by President Trump on Friday.

Then, on Saturday, he fired two more!

NYT reporter Nicholas Nehamas broke the news:

Exclusive: The Trump administration has fired two immigration judges who blocked the deportations of Rumeysa Ozturk and Mohsen Mahdawi, two int'l students who expressed pro-Palestinian views. Four other judges were fired on Friday too.

— Nicholas Nehamas (@NickNehamas) April 11, 2026

The two judges fired on Saturday oversaw high-profile deportation cases of two international students who took part in violent, pro-Palestine riots on university campuses.

The New York Times reported further:

The firings of the judges, Roopal Patel and Nina Froes, marked the latest efforts by the Trump administration to reshape the country’s immigration courts.

The administration has dismissed dozens of immigration judges and, according to those on the bench, has put judges under pressure to deny asylum claims and order deportations. Unlike federal judges in the independent judicial branch, immigration judges work for the Justice Department and are hired and fired by the attorney general.

The two judges, who were terminated alongside four colleagues on Friday, oversaw two high-profile cases filed by the government against the students, Rumeysa Ozturk and Mohsen Mahdawi.

Mr. Trump has aggressively sought to reshape the immigration courts since he won a second term, with dramatic results. Judges are ordering a record number of people deported and granting asylum at the lowest rate since at least 2009, the first year for which reliable data is available. Cases are being resolved faster, and a backlog of claims that soared under President Joseph R. Biden Jr. has started to fall.

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Ms. Ozturk and Mr. Mahdawi were arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents last year. Their detentions had been part of a string of arrests of international students who had publicly expressed support of Palestinian causes or had taken part in protests on U.S. campuses that the Trump administration labeled antisemitic.

Ms. Ozturk, a Turkish-born student at Tufts University, had her student visa status in the United States repealed by Secretary of State Marco Rubio after writing an article in a student newspaper criticizing university leadership’s stances on Palestinian causes. The government similarly tried to deport Mr. Mahdawi, a Palestinian student at Columbia University and green card holder, because of his involvement in campus protests. Mr. Rubio said his continued presence in the country could “potentially undermine” U.S. foreign policy.

Good riddance…

Keep taking out the trash, Mr. President!

What’s your verdict?