Tagged immigration courts

Trump Shutdown Closes Immigration Courts, Stopping Deportations

Leo Vidal
Featured News
Wed, Jan 2nd, 2019

Donald Trump’s partial shutdown of the U.S. government is almost two weeks old. One of the effects of the shutdown that Trump probably didn’t anticipate is that he has closed most of the country’s immigration courts. His fight for the wall is now making it impossible to deport people, or even hear immigration cases. In…

Immigration Judge Explodes: Parents ‘Get Nothing, Not Even a Slip of Paper’

Leo Vidal
Featured News
Thu, Jun 21st, 2018

A public defense attorney who is handling immigration cases in Texas said the government prosecutors have no answers for parents separated from their children at the border, and no answers for judges presiding over the cases either. And apparently some of the judges are getting very upset about the process. Erik Hanshew, a federal public…