Falls Church, Virginia (CNN) Attorney General Jeff Sessions told a new group of immigration judges Monday that it is their job to "restore the rule of law" to the immigration system over the contrary efforts of the lawyers who represent immigrants. The remarks at the training of the largest-ever class of new immigration judges implied that the judges were on the same team as the Trump administration, and that immigrants and their attorneys were trying to undermine their efforts. Those decisions overrode the evolution of years of immigration judges' and the immigration appellate board's decisions. In the immigration court system, the judges are employed by the Justice Department, and the attorneys serving as prosecutors work for the Department of Homeland Security. That is the largest class of immigration judges ever, and it means the system now has the most active immigration judges in history.

Source: CNN September 10, 2018 16:52 UTC