Also, * Monique Harris, who was ACIJ over the Orlando and Guyanabo courts is no longer listed as an ACIJ. * Charles Koutras, ACIJ over the Portland and SLC courts is no longer listed. Here's the ACIJ list from a week ago: web.archive.org/web/20250526...
Both Harris and Koutras are now de-listed from the ACIJ assignments page. Orlando, Guayanabo, Portland, and SLC have no ACIJ assigned. Oddly, Jeffrey S. Miller is still on the ACIJ assignments list but is no longer listed as an ACIJ. www.justice.gov/eoir/acij-as...
just FYI the DRP 2, (and drp for people retiring) and VERA were offered and ACIJs/IJs and staff who took those programs had to move to admin leave by june 1. EOIR is losing countless judges and staff bc they don't want to be a part of this BS and many were planning on retiring/leaving anyway
I’ve met Koutras. I can’t imagine him putting up with any of… this.
most of the IJs i know have said they don't like what's coming down the road for them and have basically said 'good luck' with replacing them. as they are very experienced and knowledgable and capable of doing high volume work in a very niche area of law
the last hiring IJ post open to the public which was open to the entire country geographically had only 300 applicants. that's abysmal.
That’s very interesting data. The brain drain will be enormous and I have no idea how anyone is supposed to come in later and clean up the mess.
IJ Harris retired as did a great number of IJs last week.