The DoJ removes experience of experience in immigration law for temporary judges

In an apparent effort to combat millions of cases of immigration in the background, the Ministry of Justice has made a change of rule to allow lawyers without experience in immigration law to act as temporary immigration judges.

The Doj’s Office of Immigration Review published the rule in The Federal Register Thursday, which removes the requirement according to which temporary immigration judges have a substantial previous experience in immigration law.

Jurists approved by the Attorney General Pam Bondi can serve as immigration judges, which represents a change in tide after more than 100 judges were dismissed or bought by the Trump administration earlier in 2025.

The Doj hopes that by widening the net as to which could hear the cases related to immigration, the most than three million background case could finally be assured.

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Jurists approved by the Attorney General Pam Bondi can serve as immigration judges. (Craig Hudson / Reuters)

The “Department no longer thinks that the restriction of TIJ to current employees of the department having a level of experience in immigration law serves the interests of Eoir”, the entry into the Federal Register has read.

“”Immigration law Experience is not always a strong predictor of success as (immigration judge) and Eoir hired individuals from other federal agencies and components of the department without prior immigration experience that have succeeded and exemplary (immigration judges) “, he continued.

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The rule has also indicated that there is no clear reason why lawyers who pleaded before major courts on issues of non-immigration or who have been employed for the Supreme Court should be disqualified to serve as an immigration.

The “need for assistance in immigration cases fairly and efficiently has increased only since the adoption of a plan to use the TIJ in 2014. Judge the candidates.

Dozens of immigration judges were dismissed in July, some depositing official calls for their layoffs.

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Some of the people sent made the packaging claimed that previous decisions, sex-based discrimination and, in a case, a court palace tour given to Senator Richard Durbin, D-ill., As a result of decisions.

The Ministry of Justice referred Fox News Digital to a background section of the federal register which indicated that the change of rule is intended to “help the substantial workload of the immigration courts”.

“The director of the Eoir, with the approval of the Attorney General, can designate or select the TIJ, who have the power of an IJ to judge assigned affairs and administer the affairs of the immigration court,” he continued in part.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.