Meet the judges powering Trump’s deportation machine

The remade Board of Immigration Appeals has tightened rules for immigration court proceedings, which have resulted in more removals of immigrants with ongoing green card, asylum or other immigration applications.

The immigration appeals judges long viewed as the last refuge for those fighting to stay in the U.S. are now central to President Donald Trump’s deportation machine.

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