Immigration courts are supposed to be open to the public, but Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) refused to allow a Reason reporter to enter a federal detention center in Miami where hearings take place.
And afterward the government more or less admitted we should have been let inside.
Yesterday, I drove up to the gate of the Krome Detention Center, an ICE facility on the western edge of Miami, and identified myself as a reporter who wanted to observe the immigration court inside. The guards look puzzled; court observers are out of the ordinary at immigration hearings.
