During the summer months, immigration judges had already had to contend with an outsized enforcement presence in normally empty courtroom hallways. ICE attorneys — who argue on behalf of a government that an immigrant should be deported — started more regularly filing "motions to dismiss" cases. When a judge granted such a motion, migrants would be detained before leaving the building.
Levine said such motions should be granted if there is a change in the individual migrant's case, not a change in immigration policy.
"I was not told it was because of my decision to deny the motion to dismiss that I was fired," Levine said. "But I handed down a decision that contravened what they apparently wanted the judges to do."…
https://www.npr.org/2025/11/06/g-s1-96437/trump-immigration-judges-fired
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