The Trump Administration created Performance Quota Policies in 2018—a policy incentivizing judges to order more immigrant removals by threatening their job security—challenging the validity of the immigration system. This precedent persists in the Biden Administration as the Department of Justice (DOJ) passed directives in February 2024 restricting Immigration judges from speaking to the media, public, and congress without governmental approval. Therefore, a legal dilemma arises that questions the constitutionality of restricting the speech of immigrant judges and the implications of how this form of censorship impacts the immigrant community.

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