"Around the world, America stands for something. Or it did," Jeremiah Johnson, a Trump-appointed judge, told Newsweek.

The legislation comes after the White House authorized up to 600 military lawyers to be temporary immigration judges and scrapped requirements for them to have immigration law experience.

Multiple sources have confirmed that two San Francisco immigration judges will retire by end of year. Only seven will then remain.

A U.S. judge on Thursday ordered the immediate release of Kilmar Abrego, whose wrongful deportation became a flashpoint in President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown, ruling the U.S. government never secured a formal order for his removal from the United States.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia has walked away after a scheduled appointment at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office after a federal judge ordered that officials could not detain him.

All eight judges worked out of immigration court offices at 26 Federal Plaza in New York City, which is where Immigration and Customs Enforcement is headquartered in the city, the official told CBS News.

One of the city’s top public defender organizations recently faced backlash from its union after an announced candidate for director of their immigration practice sparked outrage.

This decision marks a significant win for Abrego Garcia, whose wrongful deportation to El Salvador became a flashpoint of the Trump administration's immigration crackdown.

Diego Hernandez Garcia, 24, is a Maryville High School graduate, member of a local church and has not been charged with a crime.

After an immigration court judge granted asylum to Dailin Pacheco-Acosta and Diego Ugarte-Arenas, she is set to return to Madison. But he will remain jailed indefinitely.