{"id":6213,"date":"2025-02-16T10:20:25","date_gmt":"2025-02-16T10:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/justice-department-fires-20-immigration-judges-report\/"},"modified":"2025-02-16T10:20:25","modified_gmt":"2025-02-16T10:20:25","slug":"justice-department-fires-20-immigration-judges-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/justice-department-fires-20-immigration-judges-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Justice Department fires 20 immigration judges: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Trump administration dismissed 20 immigration judges over the weekend without explanation, as it continues its efforts to reduce the size of the federal government, the Associated Press reports. Matthew Biggs, the president of the International Federation of Professional &amp; Technical Engineers, a union representing immigration judges&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/5147744-justice-department-fires-20-immigration-judges-report\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Trump administration dismissed 20 immigration judges over the weekend without explanation, as it continues its efforts to reduce the size of the federal government, the Associated Press reports. Matthew Biggs, the president of the International Federation of Professional &amp; Technical Engineers, a union representing immigration judges&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6214,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}