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“We are, untypically, without an interpreter,” Rothschild tells a lawyer who enters the courtroom at the Stewart Detention Center after driving down from Atlanta, about 140 miles away ... He moves on to other cases -- a Peruvian asylum seeker, a Cuban man seeking bond -- and punts the missing lawyer’s case to the afternoon session....

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Lawyers: ICE arrests trans migrant woman month after release

The Spokesman-Review 18 Jan 2020

government is appealing the judge’s decision, the woman’s lawyers said Friday ... The Associated Press is identifying her only by her first name, Joselin, because her lawyers say she faces the threat of violence and persecution if she is deported to El Salvador due to her transgender identity....

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Saturday's Headlines

The Marshall News Messenger 18 Jan 2020

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AP visits immigrant courts across US, finds nonstop chaos

Messenger-Inquirer 18 Jan 2020

“We are, untypically, without an interpreter,” Rothschild tells a lawyer who enters the courtroom at the Stewart Detention Center after driving down from Atlanta, about 140 miles away ... Crowds of people wait in the hallways for their turn to see a judge, murmuring to each other and their lawyers, pressing up against the wall to let others through....

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Nonstop chaos fills immigration courts across U.S.

Times Free Press 18 Jan 2020

"We are, untypically, without an interpreter," Rothschild tells a lawyer who enters the courtroom at the Stewart Detention Center after driving down from Atlanta, about 140 miles away ... Crowds of people wait in the hallways for their turn to see a judge, murmuring to each other and their lawyers, pressing up against the wall to let others through....

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AP visits immigrant courts in Utah and across US, finds nonstop chaos

Provo Daily Herald 17 Jan 2020

“We are, untypically, without an interpreter,” Rothschild tells a lawyer who enters the courtroom at the Stewart Detention Center after driving down from Atlanta, about 140 miles away ... Veronica Mejia left El Salvador as a young teen and has now lived a third of her life in the United States ... Mejia walks down the hall with her lawyer....

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In immigrant courts across US, there’s nonstop chaos

The Recorder 17 Jan 2020

“We are, untypically, without an interpreter,” Rothschild tells a lawyer who enters the courtroom at the Stewart Detention Center after driving down from Atlanta, about 140 miles away ... Crowds of people wait in the hallways for their turn to see a judge, murmuring to each other and their lawyers, pressing up against the wall to let others through....

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Associated Press Visits Immigration Courts Across US, Finds Nonstop Chaos

The National Herald 17 Jan 2020

“We are, untypically, without an interpreter,” Rothschild tells a lawyer who enters the courtroom at the Stewart Detention Center after driving down from Atlanta, about 140 miles away ... In myriad courtrooms, similar scenes play out as immigrants and their lawyers jockey for space on too-cramped calendars....