As the Trump administration carries out a wave of firings targeting U.S. immigration judges across the country, NBC Bay Area has confirmed through multiple sources that two Bay Area immigration judges were among those let go over the past week.

San Francisco Immigration Judge Ila Deiss was fired on Thursday and Concord Immigration Judge Kyra Lilien was fired last Friday, according to multiple sources with direct knowledge of the situation.

Like many of the immigration judges fired since President Trump took office, Lilien, appointed in 2023, was still within her two-year probation period with the Department of Justice’s Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR).

Deiss, however, was appointed in 2017 and well past her probationary period, raising concerns her firing was politicall

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