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Federal immigration agents have been arresting migrants outside immigration courts across the country this week, according to multiple reports
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This marks the latest effort by the Trump administration to increase deportations
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Immigration prosecutors have been told to drop certain cases in court while federal agents wait outside to arrest those individuals once they leave the courtroom
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The Associated Press reports, usually an immigration judge must sign off on deportation orders
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However, if prosecutors are dropping cases, this allows ICE agents to arrest non-citizens
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This new tactic could raise legal and ethical concerns, particularly about due process
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This is a corruption of our immigration courts, transforming them from forums of justice into cogs in a mass deportation apparatus
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The expansion of expedited removal strips more people of their right to a hearing
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American Immigration Lawyers Association President Kelly Stumpf said in a statement, President Trump has criticized the number of trials that would be needed
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in order for all the non-citizens currently living in the United States
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In a Truth Social post from April 21st, Trump wrote, We cannot give everyone a trial because to do so would take, without exaggeration, 200 years
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We would need hundreds of thousands of trials for the hundreds of thousands of illegals we are sending out of the country
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Such a thing is not possible to do. What a ridiculous situation we are in
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For Straight Arrow News, I'm Lauren Keenan. For more on this story, download the Straight Arrow News app or visit us at san.com
