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- ↑ "U.S. Department of Justice, Executive Office of Immigration Review, Office of the Chief Immigration Judge (Petitioner/Agency) and National Association of Immigration Judges (Labor Organization/Union)" (PDF).
- ↑ "Trump Administration Seeks to Decertify Immigration Judges' Union". Non Profit News | Nonprofit Quarterly. 2020-01-28. Retrieved 2020-08-20.
- ↑ "Trump Administration Moves to Decertify Outspoken Immigration Judges' Union". New York Times. August 10, 2019.
- ↑ Gonzales, Richard (August 12, 2019). "Trump Administration Seeks Decertification Of Immigration Judges' Union". NPR . Retrieved August 19, 2019.
- ↑ July 31, Jacqueline Thomsen |; Journal, 2020 at 04:01 PM | The original version of this story was published on The National Law. "Justice Department Loses Bid to Decertify Immigration Judges' Union". National Law Journal. Retrieved 2020-08-20.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ↑ "AILA - Featured Issue: FLRA Rejects DOJ's Petition to Decertify the Immigration Judges Union". www.aila.org. Retrieved 2020-08-20.
- ↑ "WA-RP-19-0067" (PDF).
