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Immigration Deportations Escalate
People wait in line to enter immigration courts and services in New York, Monday, July 27, 2026.
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The Trump administration is packing immigration courtrooms and giving less lead-time on hearings in an effort to clear a decades-long backlog. The result is a historic rise in the number of people missing court dates and being immediately ordered deported as the system struggles to keep up, new data from Mobile Pathways shows. Supporters of the new strategy say it's helping judges use their time more efficiently. In the courthouses, judges are spending an average of five minutes or less on cases and still not working through all the cases of people who showed up.
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