Two-Year Battle Ends as DOJ Reverses Course and Agrees to Recognize Immigration Judges Union

Today, "the Department of Justice’s Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR), which administers the U.S. immigration courts, has agreed to a settlement with the National Association of Immigration Judges [NAIJ] to again recognize NAIJ as the exclusive union representative and collective bargaining agent for the nation’s more than 500 immigration judges.  Today’s announcement puts to an end an effort begun in 2019 by the DOJ, at the direction of the Trump administration, to strip away union rights from the nation’s immigration judges."  See the NAIJ press release for details.

Before the settlement, the Biden administration has been accused of "doubling down" on the Trump administration's efforts to de-certify the immigration judges union.

KJ