DOJ Axes 6th SF Immigration Judge Amid Memo Targeting ‘Statistically Improbable’ Asylum Grants

NBC Bay Area reports DOJ’s Executive Office for Immigration Review has fired San Francisco Immigration Judge Shira Levine, the sixth SF judge removed since January and nearly 30% of the court’s bench. TRAC data shows Levine’s asylum grant rate exceeded 97%. The firings closely follow a DOJ memo flagging adjudicators with “statistically improbable” outcome metrics, raising alarms among attorneys and former judges about independence and due process. EOIR declined comment; the story is developing.