Donald Trump's second administration is widely known for its severe and explicit persecution of immigrants, especially Latin Americans. There is no shortage of evidence of this, given the numerous judicial changes already implemented to fulfill the promise of mass deportation declared in his election campaigns.

The American newspaper The Washington Post published a series of data this month regarding immigration in the country, which raised discontent regarding the legitimacy of immigration courts. 

In this sense, it was pointed out that 67% of the new judges hired to meet the high demand for immigration issues do not have qualified legal experience in this area. The core of this position involves presiding over hearings to determine the removal of individuals and their eligibility for protection benefits, such as asylum. With the authority to decide the legal fate of immigrants, these officials issue final rulings on permanence or deportation and have the power to reconsider custody decisions, allowing the release of detainees upon payment of bail.

The motivation for renewing the judgeships was based on replacing simple immigration judges with "deportation judges," as they have been called. In this way, Trump's transition aims to ideologically align the courts with the government's deportation agenda. However, this designation is nonexistent and constitutes misinformation, since the role of a judge presupposes a fair judgment based on facts and laws, not a predetermined resolution. From this perspective, the action aims to transform immigration courts into mere "deportation factories", where due process and the individualized analysis of humanitarian cases are neglected due to anti-immigrant Republican ideologies, aligned with the American far-right.

From this perspective, immigrants are prone to unfair legal decisions, which can result in imprisonment, deportation, or family separation, since technical expertise should be considered a crucial prerequisite for judges. In addition to the lack of prior guidance, the training period has been reduced from five to three weeks, demonstrating, once again, the president's disinterest and disrespect forimmigrants.

The internal reorganization of immigration courts therefore reflects a strategic attempt to align the judicial system with the government's agenda of mass deportations, replacing technical impartiality. This scenario is aggravated by the fact that more than 75% of the 140 new judges have never worked with immigration law during their careers, which compromises the essential function of the position. Consequently, this institutional transition leaves thousands of individuals exposed to arbitrary decisions that result in arrests, deportations, and family separations.