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ICE’s crackdown on immigrants is overwhelming the court system

People wait in line to enter immigration courts and services in New York, Monday, July 27, 2026. (Seth Wenig/AP)
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People wait in line to enter immigration courts and services in New York, Monday, July 27, 2026. (Seth Wenig/AP)

Politico’s Kyle Cheney joins host Rob Schmitz to discuss his analysis of how a seemingly mundane reinterpretation of a complex immigration law has caused a year of frantic emergency cases for the court system and upended people’s lives after Immigration and Customs Enforcement began detaining people who have lived in the U.S. for years.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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