US Immigration Courts Accelerate Hearings with 'Mega Masters' to Increase Deportation Orders
New tactic targets undocumented immigrants, especially those without legal representation
En resumen
The US Justice Department is accelerating immigration hearings through 'mega masters' with 100+ people, targeting those without lawyers, to issue more deportation orders, amid President Trump's goal to deport 1 million people annually.
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Por qué importa
President Trump aims to increase deportation rates, citing backlogged immigration courts as an obstacle.
Immigration courts inside the Justice Department are drastically accelerating immigrants' hearings and bunching them together with the goal of issuing more deportation orders. [...] The effort comes as President Trump seeks to deport a million people a year — much higher than the 600,000 people the administration deported in 2025. [...] The Executive Office for Immigration Review, the agency that runs the immigration courts at the DOJ, did not respond to a request for comment on this new strategy. [...] The rapid hirings come after EOIR lost about a quarter of its immigration judges last year, with more than 100 of them fired. And even as more judges were hired last week, several more were fired the same day, including in courts in New York and California.
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Increased deportation orders in the short term
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- Long-term impact on deportation rates
- Effect on court backlog
