Tears flowed in S.F. courtroom as immigration judge was fired mid-hearing

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Shuting Chen was conducting an asylum hearing for a family of three Venezuelan siblings, listening to testimony about how they had fled persecution in their home country, when an email popped up on one of her computer screens. The subject line read "Notice of Termination."

She felt like all the air had been sucked out of her lungs, she told the Chronicle.

For months, she had been mentally preparing for this moment as she helped one colleague after another who had been fired by the Trump administration pack up their offices. She took on hundreds of additional motions from the dockets of her terminated colleagues, working weekends and nights to shoulder the exponential workload.

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The floodgates opened. She broke down in tears. She told the attorneys, the interpreter and the asylum-seekers that she had been fired and could not finish the case. The asylum-seekers' attorney, Julie Reddy Wiltshire started crying. Chen apologized then left.

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