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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Alex Woodward

Immigration courts are holding hearings with 100 or more people at a time as they try to accelerate deportations: report

Immigration courts across the country are increasingly scheduling hearings for 100 people or more in an effort to speed up Donald Trump’s mass deportation efforts.

These so-called “mega masters” hearings — which appear designed to target immigrants who don’t have a lawyer — are clustering dozens of people before an immigration court judge, who can then swiftly decide their fate in an already-accelerated legal process under the Trump administration.

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