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Immigration Officers Intensify Arrests in Courthouse Hallways on a Fast Track to Deportation
- In May 2025, immigration officers arrested multiple asylum seekers outside U.S. courtrooms across cities like Seattle, Los Angeles, and Houston, advancing fast-track deportations.
- This intensified enforcement followed President Trump's January expansion of fast-track authority, allowing deportations without initial judicial review and aiming for 3,000 arrests daily.
- Among those arrested was O-J-M, a transgender Mexican woman who claimed cartel rape before crossing in September 2023 and whose case was dismissed by a judge prior to arrest.
- Legal experts like attorney Jordan Cunnings called the policy "an attempt to disappear people," noting that isolation increases the chance migrants abandon their cases.
- These arrests have sparked fear among immigrants, disrupted court attendance, and intensified debates over due process amid a 3.6 million-case immigration backlog.
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SEATTLE: A transgender woman who says she was raped by Mexican cartel members told an immigration judge in Oregon that she wanted her asylum case to continue. A Venezuelan man bluntly told a judge in Seattle, “They will kill me if I go back to my country.” A man and his cousin said they feared for their lives should they return to Haiti.
A transgender woman who claims to have been raped by members of a Mexican cartel told an Oregon immigration judge that she wanted her asylum case to continue.
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