Cecilia Lei

In 2025, it put out a significantly higher number of these decisions than in years past, and a vast majority of them sided with the DHS.

Some examples of the rulings include making it harder for immigration courts to release individuals on bond instead of detaining them and making it easier to deport immigrants to countries that they're not from.

Recently, the Trump administration has also tried to dramatically streamline this appeal process in order to deport more immigrants, but a federal judge temporarily put a halt to that.

Changing the Board of Immigration Appeals is just one of the ways the administration is reshaping the executive branch's immigration court system.

According to NPR, at least 100 judges were fired in the last year, and others have resigned or retired.

The overall loss in judges has led to a big backlog in cases.

And with the appeals board reduced in size, it could make it harder to catch issues in legal proceedings.

In response, a DOJ spokesperson told NPR that the current appeals board decisions, quote, reflect straightforward interpretations of clear statutory language.

And here's a few other stories we're following.

The attack on a Michigan synagogue earlier this month was an act of terror inspired by the Iran-backed group Hezbollah, according to the FBI.

On March 12th, a man who was a naturalized U.S.

citizen from Lebanon rammed a truck full of explosives into Temple Israel just outside of Detroit.

No one was killed in the attack, but the man behind the wheel later took his own life during an exchange of fire with synagogue security.

CBS News reports that members of the man's family were killed on March 5th when Israel attacked Hezbollah outposts in Lebanon, which two of his brothers were reportedly a part of.

Air Canada's CEO will retire later this year after being criticized for failing to speak French in a condolence video.

Michael Rousseau was responding to the March 22nd fatal collision at LaGuardia Airport in New York that killed two pilots.

But he had to apologize for being unable to express himself adequately in French.

an official language in Canada.

The country's prime minister, Mark Carney, said Rousseau had a responsibility to express himself in both languages.

And finally, there were some hints when mysterious banners appeared across Paris, bearing song titles like The Power of Love and My Heart Will Go On.