Federal immigration judges fired by the Trump Administration over e-mail this month lashed out at Trump in an interview with CBS Night Information.
Greater than 100 immigration judges have been fired or resigned since President Trump took workplace this yr.
In July, 20 immigration judges had been fired.
Three of the fired judges – George Pappas, Jennifer Peyton and Carla Espinoza – spoke to CBS about their terminations. The disgruntled judges claimed they had been politically pressured by the Trump Administration to grant motions to dismiss instances.
“It was arbitrary, unfair,” George Pappas advised CBS Information of his abrupt firing. “And it’s an assault on the rule of legislation. It’s an assault on judges.”
“My electronic mail was three sentences,” Jennifer Peyton whined. “I had no trigger. I had no rationalization.”
“We as judges, had been in worry, we had been involved,” Carla Espinoza mentioned. “That makes it very tough to be neutral. We weren’t succumbing to that stress nevertheless it does really feel like stress.”
Payton whined that when the unlawful alien left the courtroom, ICE would handcuff them and whisk them away.
WATCH:
Former immigration judges are talking out after sudden firings by the Trump administration, alleging political stress and threats to due course of in an already overwhelmed court docket system. CBS Information’ @MauriceDuboisTV sat down with three judges who had been terminated in July by electronic mail. pic.twitter.com/4JMjZEpNxj
— CBS Night Information (@CBSEveningNews) July 24, 2025
Excerpt from CBS News:
George Pappas, Jennifer Peyton and Carla Espinoza had been all federal immigration judges fired this month by electronic mail. The three dominated on hundreds of immigration instances in Chicago and Boston.
Pappas served as an immigration decide in Boston till this week, overseeing greater than 2,000 instances throughout his two years on the bench. Peyton led Chicago’s immigration court docket for almost 9 years, listening to hundreds of instances till she was abruptly fired over the 4th of July weekend.
Peyton oversaw Espinoza, who was appointed in 2023 and determined greater than 1,000 instances within the final fiscal yr, double the common for immigration judges.
Peyton advised CBS Information she acquired no cause for her firing. Immigration judges are below the authority of the Justice Division’s Government Workplace for Immigration Evaluation.
