by Patrick Villano
Chen is one of 12 San Francisco immigration court judges who have been fired by the Department of Justice this year, leaving a skeleton staff of just nine judges to handle the workload of 21. None have been replaced, but the Trump administration has advertised open positions, including in San Francisco, as “deportation judges.”
The terminations are part of an unprecedented axing of immigration judges nationwide, who are employees of the Department of Justice’s Executive Office for Immigration Review, responsible for hearing asylum claims and other appeals for immigration benefits from people in deportation proceedings.
Article in the SF Chronicle https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/judge-shuting-chen-immigration-21207729.php