President Donald Trump and his administration have worked tirelessly to get as many illegal aliens deported as possible as it was a cornerstone promise of his presidential campaign. He's actually following through on it in a big way.

Trump and his top officials have been hamstrung at every turn by activist judges and attorneys who have also worked overtime to protect illegals from being deported and now -- surprise, surprise -- they're worried about their careers, according to ABC7News.

The outlet quoted immigration attorneys who believe their jobs are in jeopardy for attempting to block their clients from being deported.

Trump and his administration earlier accused immigration lawyers and judges of purposely coaching illegals on how to avoid deportation, among other tactics to sidestep the new administration's rules.

What's happening?

In March, President Trump issued an executive order accusing immigration lawyers of attempting to coach their clients into lying on asylum applications in order to avoid deportation.

That led to a directive issued to U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi to identify such lawyers and have them sanctioned or removed altogether.

ABC7News noted:

The president then directed the U.S. Attorney General to identify misconduct "such as filing frivolous litigation or engaging in fraudulent practices" and sanction attorneys who "violate professional conduct rules."

Now, not surprisingly, immigration judges and lawyers are worried about their careers, as they should be.

Former immigration judge Ilyce Shugall released a statement calling Trump's EO "threatening."

"The language in that executive order was very threatening, that by helping someone apply for asylum we're violating our ethical rules as attorneys and that we will be investigated and could be charged and lose our licenses if we continue to help people seeking asylum," she said.

Purging

Since President Trump took office, more than 100 immigration judges have been fired. They're not elected or appointed like criminal judges, rather, they're regular employees who can be fired at will.

The outle noted:

Many were hired in the past two years and were still in their probationary period, but others -- like Jennifer Peyton, who oversaw Chicago's immigration court as assistant chief judge -- were also fired with no reason given. She got a three sentence email from Sirce Owen, acting director of the Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR), that simply stated "your removal is effective today."

Records show that many of the fired judges were approving over 90% of asylum requests.

Immigration courts are now down to about 600 judges from the 800 that worked prior to Trump taking office.