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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Alex Woodward

Trump administration has a new trick to speed up deporting asylum seekers

Hundreds of thousands of people seeking asylum in the U.S. could soon be forced to have their cases heard in courtrooms run by Donald Trump’s administration.

The Department of Homeland Security will allow the government to send asylum seekers directly to immigration court without first receiving an intake interview about their applications, raising the risk of immigration judges throwing out their cases and making them immediately vulnerable to arrest and removal.

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