Trump’s deportation crackdown accelerated by potent court tool

Mass hearings, removal orders ‘in absentia’ – judges are wrapping up immigration cases in unprecedented numbers The second Trump administration recorded its highest number of immigration arrests so far last month. One significant and alarming reason that is far less noticeable than armored, masked agents swaggering in the streets with weapons may be a sudden change in America’s immigration courts. Here, in recent months, accelerated mass hearings are giving people facing existential questions...

By Alexandra Villarreal in New York