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Chicago immigration court violated due process for minors with removal orders, lawmakers say
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U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin and immigration advocates sounded an alarm Wednesday over what they described as systemic due process violations at Chicago's Downtown immigration court.
Trump Has Found a New Way to Sabotage the Asylum Process
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Personnel trained to streamline the system have been suddenly reassigned to tend to administration priorities that can best be described as “spectral.”
