The Trump administration is slashing the ranks of immigration judges in a drive to extend its broader crackdown to the administrative courts where they serve and speed up deportations.
Many of the cuts are in liberal areas, according to a labor union that has represented the judges. In New York, eight were recently terminated in a single day. At least one San Francisco judge was fired in the middle of a complicated asylum hearing. Those cuts were part of a culling of about 100 judges from the federal immigration bench, which began the year with around 700.
The terminations, often delivered on Friday ...