"The federal immigration court in downtown San Francisco that started 2025 with 21 judges and will soon be down to just four, thanks to Trump administration mass-firings, will close by January 2027. News arrived Wednesday that federal officials are planning to shut down the immigration court at 100 Montgomery Street in San Francisco by the end of the year, and transfer all or most immigration court activity to the court in Concord."
"As Mission Local reports, a smaller set of courtrooms at the other SF immigration facility and ICE headquarters at 630 Sansome Street will remain open for business. The Concord immigration court saw five judge fired last year, though two had not yet begun hearing any cases. Seven judges remain at that court, and four remaining judges based at 100 Montgomery are expected to be transferred there by this summer."
"As Politico reported last month, the Trump administration has fired around 98 immigration judges out of the 700 who had been serving as of early last year. Olivia Cassin, a fired judge based in New York, said this was by design, and, "It's about destroying a system where cases are carefully considered by people with knowledge of the subject matter.""
Federal officials plan to shut down the immigration court at 100 Montgomery Street in San Francisco by the end of the year and transfer most immigration-court activity to the Concord court. A smaller set of courtrooms at the other San Francisco immigration facility and ICE headquarters at 630 Sansome Street will remain open. Concord had five judges fired last year and now has seven judges; four remaining judges based at 100 Montgomery are expected to transfer to Concord by summer. Out of 21 judges serving last spring at 100 Montgomery, 13 have been fired and four are scheduled to retire. The court faces a backlog of about 120,000 pending cases. The Executive Office for Immigration Review has not commented.
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