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New policy memo begins to set down justifications for widespread firing of immigration judges hired during Biden admin
Reposted by Radley Balko
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
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At the immigration courts, an extraordinarily aggressive new policy memo begins to set down justifications for widespread firing of immigration judges hired during the Biden admin.
https://www.justice.gov/eoir/media/1391456/dl?inline
·
8h
At the immigration courts, an extraordinarily aggressive new policy memo begins to set down justifications for widespread firing of immigration judges hired during the Biden admin.
https://www.justice.gov/eoir/media/1391456/dl?inline
OOD
PM 25-24
Effective: February 28, 2025
To: All of EOIR
From: Sirce E. Owen, Acting Director
Date: February 28, 2025
ADJUDICATOR PERSONNEL MATTERS
PURPOSE: Re-establish consistent and lawful practices regarding EOIR adjudicator
personnel matters
OWNER: Office of the Director
AUTHORITY: 8 C.F.R. § 1003.0(b)
CANCELLATION: None
Beginning in 2021, EOIR engaged in a number of questionable and problematic personnel
practices concerning adjudicators1 that called its integrity, credibility, and impartiality into serious
question. At best these practices were unexplained, unwarranted, and unprofessional departures
from past practices or policies; at worst, they may have constituted unlawful prohibited personnel
practices (PPPs).
2 In either case, this PM resets EOIR’s policies regarding adjudicator personnel
actions in order to ensure EOIR’s hiring of adjudicators is based solely on merit (and any
applicable preference granted by law), that all hiring actions comply with appropriate and
consistent procedures, that allegations of similar misconduct by adjudicators are treated
consistently in a similar manner, and that any disciplinary or corrective action is consistent with
the seriousness of the misconduct.
PM 25-24
Effective: February 28, 2025
To: All of EOIR
From: Sirce E. Owen, Acting Director
Date: February 28, 2025
ADJUDICATOR PERSONNEL MATTERS
PURPOSE: Re-establish consistent and lawful practices regarding EOIR adjudicator
personnel matters
OWNER: Office of the Director
AUTHORITY: 8 C.F.R. § 1003.0(b)
CANCELLATION: None
Beginning in 2021, EOIR engaged in a number of questionable and problematic personnel
practices concerning adjudicators1 that called its integrity, credibility, and impartiality into serious
question. At best these practices were unexplained, unwarranted, and unprofessional departures
from past practices or policies; at worst, they may have constituted unlawful prohibited personnel
practices (PPPs).
2 In either case, this PM resets EOIR’s policies regarding adjudicator personnel
actions in order to ensure EOIR’s hiring of adjudicators is based solely on merit (and any
applicable preference granted by law), that all hiring actions comply with appropriate and
consistent procedures, that allegations of similar misconduct by adjudicators are treated
consistently in a similar manner, and that any disciplinary or corrective action is consistent with
the seriousness of the misconduct.
https://bsky.app/profile/reichlinmelnick.bsky.social/post/3ljbysm7pas2u