Important to know: Those aren’t real courts. Those are under the DHS, so under the executive. They have been wildly overstepping their jurisdiction.

“It might be the prerogative of the executive branch to set policy, but it’s really not their role to set limitations on rights,” Cade said. “And that’s what we’ve seen happening with the immigration court system.”

Fróes said the new policies created a toxic work environment and led some immigration judges and much of the Chelmsford staff to quit.

Immigration courts shouldn’t be part of the executive in the first place.