Inside the ‘Mega Master’ Hearings Reshaping New York's Immigration Courts

Inside the ‘Mega Master’ Hearings Reshaping New York's Immigration Courts

For nearly eight hours, a group of Haitian immigrants and asylum seekers had waited at the Manhattan immigration courthouse on Broadway last Tuesday before they found out it had all been for naught. They would have to come back another time to see the judge.  One man rocked with his head between his hands as the judge explained that all the Haitian interpreters had dropped off their calls. The dozen or so men, women, and children had received no…