Inside the NYC courthouse where immigrants learn their fates

Inside the NYC courthouse where immigrants learn their fates

More than a dozen Immigrations and Customs Enforcement agents wearing face masks and street clothes fanned around outside the courtroom where deportation hearings happen like clockwork. One armed agent scanned the court docket as a closed-circuit television broadcast the drama unfolding inside the courtroom. “I’d rather be detained here for 15 years than return to my country,” a Honduras-born man was telling Immigration Judge Karen Nazaire-Franc…