Pentagon sending up to 600 military lawyers to serve as immigration judges

Immigration courts are also already dealing with a huge backlog of roughly 3.5m cases that has ballooned in recent years. 

However, numerous immigration judges have been fired or left voluntarily after taking deferred resignations offered by the administration, according to their union. The International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers (IFPTE) said in July that at least 17 immigration judges had been fired "without cause" in courts across the country. 

That has left about 600 immigration judges, union figures show, meaning the Pentagon move will double their ranks...

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