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Mega-Masters Explained: How Trump's Immigration Courts are Manufacturing Deportations
The Trump administration rolled out a new tactic to generate removal orders: piling well over 100 court cases on short notice into impossibly crowded…
Jul 30
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New Details about Mega-Masters Help Tell the Inside Story of Mass Deportation Hearings
Latest immigration court data and qualitative research reveal much more about mega-masters hearings designed to generate large numbers of deportations…
Jul 28
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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
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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
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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
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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
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