SAN FRANCISCO — The Justice Department fired San Francisco immigration judge Jeremiah Johnson in November as part of a broader restructuring of the federal immigration court system under President Trump. Johnson had served on the bench for eight years after being appointed during Trump's first term.

Johnson serves as the executive vice president of the National Association of Immigration Judges. Before July of last year, he heard three individual cases per day, a workload that included taking testimony, reviewing evidence, and deciding the cases. In July, three additional detained docket cases were added to his docket, increasing his caseload to six cases per day.

The Justice Department has fired more than 100 sitting immigration judges and is advertising to hire so-called deportation judges in their place. The terminations have come as the administration has implemented changes to the legal immigration system since Trump returned to office, including speeding up deportations and placing new restrictions on asylum seekers.

Trump has attempted to block all asylum seekers from applying at the border, though federal courts have blocked those attempts several times. Under current policy, migrants can be held without bond in detention centers, which have been described as overcrowded and unsanitary.

In one case handled in the San Francisco immigration court, a woman who entered the United States legally and applied for admission was held in detention for more than eight months before her individual hearing on her asylum case. By the time of the hearing, she requested to return to her home country. Her asylum case was dismissed and terminated, and she returned home despite having an application under consideration.