Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has approved sending up to 600 military lawyers to the Justice Department to serve as temporary immigration judges, according to a memo reviewed by The Associated Press.

The Trump administration is assigning military lawyers as temporary immigration judges after firing dozens from the bench. About 100 Army Reserve lawyers will begin six-month assignments to ease a 3.4 ...

A man in the doorway of a courtroom in San Diego Immigration Court. (File photo by Adrian Childress/Times of San Diego) The Trump administration is tapping National Guard and Army Reserve lawyers to ...

Federal agents stand outside an immigration court at the Jacob K. Javits federal building in New York, Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2025. (Yuki Iwamura/AP) SAN DIEGO — The Trump administration is tapping ...

ICE arrests of military spouses during green card interviews in San Diego spark urgent calls from families, lawyers and ...

Several foreign-born spouses of US citizens were detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) while attending ...

SAN DIEGO — The Trump administration is tapping National Guard and Army Reserve lawyers to be temporary immigration judges after firing dozens of existing judges, the latest step in a broader plan ...