Mass hearings, removal orders ‘in absentia’ – judges are wrapping up immigration cases in unprecedented numbers The second Trump administration recorded its highest number of immigration arrests so far last month. One significant and alarming reason that is far less noticeable than armored, masked agents swaggering in the streets with weapons may be a sudden change in America’s immigration courts. Here, in recent months, accelerated mass hearings are giving people facing existential questions about their fu…

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    2 days ago

    Immigration “judges” are employed by the executive branch, not the judicial, and are not really judges, they’re administators. That’s because the system is rigged against immigrants, as it was even before Trump further corrupted the system.