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Lawsuit says immigration

courts are now

deportation machines

By ANDREW SELSKY
Associated Press
SALEM, Ore. (AP) — The immigration court system under
the Trump administration has become a “deportation
machine,” two groups said in a lawsuit filed in federal
court on Wednesday. The lawsuit filed by the Southern
Poverty Law Center in Washington, D.C., and Innovation
Law Lab of Portland, Oregon, said that instead of being
fair and impartial, judges in immigration courts answer to
Attorney General Robert Barr and are pushed to deny
applications for asylum. “The immigration courts make
life-and-death decisions every day: vulnerable people
seeking asylum in the United States depend on a func- In this Sept. 17, 2019, file photo, is the Migration Protection Protocols Immigration Hearing Facility,
tioning court system to protect them from persecution, a new tent court facility made up of tents and portable pods along the Rio Grande in Laredo,
torture, and death. Texas.
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