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ICE's novel strategy allows for more arrests from inside immigration courts

5:00am June 12, 2025

The Trump administration has a novel strategy to boost arrests and reduce courts' backlog: dismissing people's immigration cases and immediately arresting them.

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He was fired under Biden. Under Trump, he's now leading an immigration court

5:00am June 06, 2025

His rehiring raises questions about the neutrality of immigration judges, who are supposed to be impartial and whose decisions determine if someone can stay or must leave the country.

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Trump wants to bypass immigration courts. Experts warn it's a 'slippery slope.'

5:15am April 29, 2025

The administration's recent actions to fire immigration judges and other steps are chipping away at what was already an imperfect system in administrative courts.

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Lawyers warn clients of increased arrest risk at immigration check-ins

9:06am April 24, 2025

Immigration attorneys are advising clients who have deportation orders when they show up at court dates and immigration appointments, there is an increased risk of getting detained.

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Mahmoud Khalil misses son's birth after ICE official denies his request to be there

10:24pm April 21, 2025

Khalil has been held in Louisiana since ICE agents arrested him in New York over his pro-Palestinian activism. He instead experienced the birth by phone.

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'Due process does look different': DHS official defends deportation of Maryland man

2:03pm April 07, 2025

The Trump administration has defended the deportation of Maryland man mistakenly sent to El Salvador.

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Vehicles wait in line to cross into Canada at the Peace Bridge Plaza on March 18, 2020, in Buffalo N.Y. The Canada-U.S. border will be closed to non-essential traffic in both directions "by mutual consent," President Donald Trump confirmed Wednesday, as e

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Immigration Grinds To A Halt As President Trump Shuts Borders

9:58pm March 18, 2020

by Joel Rose

A day of dramatic developments on the northern and southern borders as the U.S. immigration system slows down in response to the growing Coronavirus pandemic.

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., is among nine Democratic members of the Senate Judiciary Committee who signed a letter accusing the Trump administration of politicizing the immigration courts.

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Senate Democrats Accuse Justice Department Of Politicizing Immigration Courts

3:31pm February 13, 2020

by Joel Rose

In a bluntly worded letter to the Justice Department on Thursday, Democratic senators accuse the administration of deliberately eroding the independence of U.S. immigration courts.

Migrants applying for asylum in the United States go through a processing area at a new tent courtroom at the Migration Protection Protocols Immigration Hearing Facility in Laredo, Texas, in September.

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Few Asylum-Seekers Winning Cases Under 'Remain In Mexico' Program

4:42pm December 20, 2019

by Joel Rose

A little more than 100 migrants out the of tens of thousands who've arrived at the southern border in recent months have been granted protection.

Javier Dominguez at his home in Dillon, Colo. Dominguez is appealing his deportation orders and has to travel over the mountains to immigration court in Denver for his hearings.

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Navigating The Immigration Court System In The Rural Mountain West

4:24pm May 20, 2019

by Ali Budner

Immigrants risk deportation if they miss their court date. But with just 3 immigration courts across the rural west, it can be hard for immigrants there to get to the hearings, and lawyers are scarce.

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