The Trump administration has fired eight immigration judges in New York City , sharply cutting staff at one of the country’s busiest immigration courts as President Donald Trump vows to speed up deportations, The New York Times reported late Monday.

The judges, including an assistant chief immigration judge who supervised colleagues at the court inside 26 Federal Plaza in Lower Manhattan, were told their jobs were over as part of a nationwide shake-up of the immigration bench, the paper said, citing union and Justice Department officials.

The New York firings are part of a broader wave : Roughly 90 immigration judges have been dismissed across the United States this year, with only 36 replaced, according to the Times . That represents a sizable churn in a system that handles hun

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