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September 9, 2025

Trump admin. fires assistant chief S.F. immigration judge
By Margaret Kadifa


McCleskey had a 70.2 percent rate of granting asylum cases, according to the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse — higher than the national average, but middle of the road for San Francisco judges. Nationwide, Trump has fired dozens of immigration judges, even as the courts face a backlog of 3.5 million immigration cases.


Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, Syracuse University
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