US EditionImmigration Officers Intensify Arrests in Courthouse Hallways on a Fast Track to Deportation
- In January 2025, President Donald Trump expanded fast-track deportation authority allowing immigration officers to remove individuals without judge review, triggering arrests at courtrooms nationwide.
- This directive, driven by Stephen Miller's orders to boost daily arrests to at least 3,000, led ICE to adopt increasingly aggressive tactics, including courtroom hallway detentions.
- A transgender woman from Mexico, identified as O-J-M, entered the U.S. in the fall of 2023 and, after reporting a prior rape by cartel members, was arrested outside the courtroom when a judge dismissed her asylum request.
- Legal advocates like Jordan Cunnings emphasized that sudden arrests disconnect immigrants from legal and community support, increasing the likelihood they abandon their cases amid a 3.6 million case backlog.
- These enforcement measures triggered ongoing federal litigation and sparked peaceful protests in cities like Houston and Los Angeles, highlighting tensions around due process and immigration court practices.
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“I am a Cuban citizen unjustly arrested!” screams Oscar Gato Sánchez, 25, after being arrested on his way out of a federal court in Houston. Minutes earlier, an immigration judge has dismissed his asylum application in the United States. In the distance, one hears the desperate cry of his aunt Olaidys Sánchez, a 54-year-old Cuban woman who lives in Texas as a legal resident. She feels nauseous, coughing. She says she doesn’t know what she’ll do,…
Detroit courthouse arrests spark outcry federal deportation tactics
This story was copublished with Outlier Media. This story also appeared in Outlier Media Federal immigration agents arrested at least four Venezuelan migrants outside a Detroit courtroom Wednesday morning just moments after a judge dismissed their asylum cases, according to activists who witnessed the proceedings. “It took five minutes,” said Paula Duran, an organizer with the People’s Assembly, a group of activists …
US immigration officers intensify arrests in courthouse hallways on a
SEATTLE: A transgender woman who says she was raped by Mexican cartel members told an immigration judge in Oregon that she wanted her asylum case to continue. A Venezuelan man bluntly told a judge in Seattle, “They will kill me if I go back to my country.” A man and his cousin said they feared for their lives should they return to Haiti.
A transgender woman who claims to have been raped by members of a Mexican cartel told an Oregon immigration judge that she wanted her asylum case to continue.
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