Hours after Trump’s inauguration, several officials from the Justice Department’s Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) were fired.
Those fired include Mary Cheng, the acting director of the EOIR since March 2024, and Judge Sheila McNulty, who had ten years of experience in the office and was chief immigration judge.
In addition, the assistant director of EOIR’s office of policy, Lauren Alder Reid, was removed, along with Jill Anderson, the general counsel for EOIR.
ABC News
Over the next 30 days, the DOJ fires at least 20 immigration judges while immigration courts suffer from a backlog of about four million cases. Kerry Doyle, one immigration judge fired by the Trump Administration, warns in February that the immigration caseload will increase significantly.
The Department of Justice declines to tell CBS News why the personnel were terminated.
