Mega Masters

Data on "Mega Masters" Show EOIR is Targeting Individual Judges and Courts with a Flood of Hearings

An investigation into mega master hearings finds the EOIR deliberately piling cases onto specific immigration judges & manipulating the docketing system…

Jul 9 • Austin Kocher

Mega Masters: The Definition Question (Part 3)

How should we define a mega master immigration court hearing? Setting a threshold, a time window, and the rules behind counting 100+ master calendar…

Jun 29 • Austin Kocher

Docket Politics and the Immigration Courts: Why Mega Masters Are Only New-ish (Part 2)

The Trump administration is forcing over a hundred people to show up in immigration court at once—but manipulating judges' dockets is nothing new. Our…

Jun 25 • Austin Kocher

Mega Masters: The Data Behind the Latest Scheme to Manufacture Removal Orders (Part 1)

Starting in May, immigration attorneys began reporting that they were arriving at immigration court to find judges’ dockets packed with over 100…

Jun 25 • Austin Kocher

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