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2025.09.05 05:25 GMT+8

Pentagon sends 600 military lawyers as temporary immigration judges

Updated 2025.09.05 05:25 GMT+8
Owen Fairclough

The Trump administration is deploying hundreds of military lawyers to act as immigration judges. They’re expected to assist with a huge backlog of cases and a shortage of judges who have either resigned or were fired. But opposition Democrats are objecting to what they see as the militarization of law enforcement across the U.S. Owen Fairclough reports.

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