The Donald Trump administration has fired as many as eight immigration judges in New York City, The New York Times reported, citing two people with knowledge of the matter. Amiena A Khan, the assistant chief immigration judge at Federal Plaza 26, is one of the eight judges fired. Khan supervises other judges at the court. The job cuts, made Monday, followed an earlier round of layoffs at New York immigration courts. They are part of a broader disruption across the US, which is happening as President Trump moves to accelerate deportations. According to the NYT report, all eight judges were fired from the immigration court’s offices at 26 Federal Plaza, which houses the New York City headquarters for the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency and has become the seat of migrant-related arrests in the city. The development was confirmed to the newspaper by an official at the National Association of Immigration Judges, which is a union representing immigration judges, as well as an official from the Department of Justice. 100 immigration judges fired this year. Monday’s layoffs of immigration judges brought the number of such job cuts to nearly 100 this year. Before that, about 90 of them across the US had lost their jobs, including six in New York itself. According to federal officials, the US has about 600 immigration judges. Union officials said as many as 36 of the fired immigration judges had already been replaced in the US, with two of them being in New York. The 26 Federal Plaza, which houses 34 immigration judges, faced a significant loss after Monday’s firing. “The court is basically gutted … It feels like a Monday afternoon massacre,” Olivia Cassin, who lost her job as an immigration judge at another New York court in November, was quoted as saying by the NYT. Cassin told the newspaper that she had the job for more than a decade. Trump toughens immigration policy Donald Trump stepped up his threat against immigrants after two members of the National Guard were shot near the White House by a person later identified by authorities as an Afghan national. Last week, the Trump administration announced a wave of policies aimed at making it harder for some foreigners to enter or stay in the country. The administration said it was pausing asylum decisions, reconsidering green card applications for people from countries “of concern” and halting visas for Afghans who have assisted the U.S. war effort. Key Takeaways The firing of immigration judges is part of a broader strategy to speed up deportations. Nearly 100 immigration judges have been fired this year, raising alarms about the impact on asylum cases. The situation highlights the tension between immigration enforcement and judicial oversight in the US.