Immigration courts inside the Justice Department are drastically accelerating immigrants’ hearings and bunching them together with the goal of issuing more deportation orders.
The new and unprecedented tactic was shared with NPR by immigration attorneys and the American Immigration Lawyers Association, a trade association that tracks trends in these courts.
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Immigrants are now being scheduled for massive master calendar hearings — or “mega masters” — that include 100 or more people at a time.
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