Immigration courts are using a new tactic to speed up deportations

Immigration courts hold hearings for 100 people or more to accelerate deportations

Immigration attorneys are reporting an increase in ‘cattle call’-style hearings that they say fail to protect due process rights

Immigration courts are using a new tactic to speed up deportations

Immigration courts inside the Justice Department are drastically accelerating immigrants’ hearings and bunching them together with the goal of issuing more deportation orders.The new and unprecedented tactic was shared with NPR by immigration attorneys and the American Immigration Lawyers Association, a trade association that tracks trends in these courts.Immigrants are now being scheduled for massive master calendar hearings — or “mega masters”…