Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. According to the General Accountability Office, in June of 1989, there were only 69 immigration judges. This made it difficult for ...

Updated July 31, 2026 at 11:37 AM EDT The Justice Department has activated a special court that's never before been used to argue for the removal of a woman accused of supporting the Islamic State.

The Department of Justice (DOJ) is seeking to deport an Afghan alien after filing the first-ever case in a decades-old Alien Terrorist Removal Court (ATRC), according to a Thursday press release.

The court has existed for nearly three decades without being used. A sealed DOJ application could define how far the government can go when national security evidence is kept from the person facing ...

The court gives the government enormous latitude to keep secret – including from the person it is trying to deport – its reasons for believing an immigrant is a terrorist.

Mega master calendar hearings will only reduce the backlog if they produce legally sustainable orders.

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. As the bus drove away from the Bluebonnet Detention Facility, in Anson, Texas, on ...

A federal court that Congress created in 1996, which nobody ever used, just heard its first case. The Alien Terrorist Removal Court sat on the books for thirty years like a piece of legal furniture no ...

Expedited removal proceedings were proposed initially in the early 1980s as summary exclusions in response to the Mariel boatlift, a reaction to Cuba’s Castro regime that brought approximately 125,000 ...