His health declined at a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in Tacoma, Washington.

A union official says the Trump administration has fired 20 immigration judges without explanation amid sweeping moves to shrink the size of the federal government.

Immigration courts are buckling under an unprecedented 3 million pending cases, most of them newly arrived asylum-seekers.

Floyd Yarmuth/CNN(CNN) - A Department of Justice office sent its employees, including immigration judges, a daily news briefing that included a link to a blog featuring racial and anti-Semitic slurs, according to a letter sent by an immigration judges union. The department's Executive Office for Immigration Review sent an office-wide collection of "news" items on Monday -- which the agency says is compiled by a contractor -- that included the link from the white nationalist website VDare, the letter states. The National Association of Immigration Judges wrote in a letter that several member judges found the content "offensive." "The August 19, 2019 morning news briefings contained 'news' from a website known for publishing white nationalist ideology and Anti-Semitic tropes," the group wrote. Kathryn Mattingly, the assistant press secretary for the Executive Office for Immigration Review, said the office's morning news briefings sent to employees are compiled by a contractor.