EOIR says it will reduce the size of the Board of Immigration Appeals from 28 members to 15 members. They had 127,214 appeals pending at the end of the first quarter 2025. And a ton more are coming now that they're ramping up removal orders... public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-06294.p...
Do you think they're just going to use AI to mass deny all Respondent appeals in order to keep up with the pace?
When they did this during Bush II, they fired all the neutral BIA members and then started issuing a bunch of rubber stamp "affirm without opinion" decisions. The number of circuit court appeals increased, and they regularly got called out by circuit courts for bad decision making. Here we go again.
I think so.