Lawsuit says immigration courts are now deportation machines

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.

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