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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Alex Woodward

Why federal courts are at a breaking point over Trump’s mass deportation surge

President Donald Trump’s administration is working fast to arrest and deport as many people as it can, from street-level surges of federal officers to far-reaching behind-the-scenes changes that have upended immigration policy altogether.

But a government lawyer’s breakdown in front of a federal judge this week exposed the simmering tensions between the Trump administration’s fast-moving mass deportation campaign and the lawyers who are juggling the explosion of legal battles against it.

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