The immigration judges’ abrupt dismissals marked the latest efforts by the Trump administration to reshape the country’s immigration courts.

Immigration judges are executive branch employees who can be fired, unlike Senate -confirmed judges under article III. This is part of a broader pattern

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    They are not judges. They are administrative officials that playact as judges. (They work for the executive branch, not the judicial branch.)