Immigration judges want union back ahead of Trump deportations

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Axios

11 hours ago


Most of the nation's 734 immigration judges are seeking to reinstate their union ahead of an expected spike in immigration cases from President-elect Trump's planned mass deportations.

Driving the news: The judges' appeal, scheduled to go before the Federal Labor Relations Authority (FLRA) on Tuesday, seeks to restore their right to bargain for contracts and have a union — a right stripped from them during Trump's first term.

The big picture: Immigration judges are expecting a huge surge in new cases — adding to an already historic backlog of 3.7 million cases — once Trump launches his promised mass deportations of millions of undocumented immigrants.

The U.S. immigration system's backlog will take an estimated four years to resolve at the current pace — which could balloon to 16 years under Trump's deportation plan, according to an Axios analysis.

Of the 3.7 million pending cases, 1.6 million involve asylum seekers awaiting formal hearings or case decisions.

Background: The Trump-controlled FLRA stripped the NAIJ of its bargaining and union power in 2020 after calling judges "managers" who weren't eligible for union representation.

The NAIJ challenged the decision in federal court, and won a ruling that said immigration judges were entitled to union representation.

Read more: https://www.axios.com/2024/12/10/immigration-judges-union-donald-trump

[LauraInLA]

1. So the decision is due in about 6 weeks, just in time for Trump to deny the union again? Maybe not since there's now a

court ruling.

[Karma13612]

2. So, based on the time

Frames mentioned in this article, pertaining to immigration backlogs, how soon would people get deported? Does this huge backlog mean the deportations that PEINO wants to do will also be backlogged?
Or are his targets just rounded up and put on planes and buses?

[mymomwasright]

3. Wildcat!!

[ZonkerHarris]

4. go on strike