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My colleague Nicholas Namas brings us the inside story of how the president has systematically pressured the judges
in that system to carry out his agenda and speaks with one of those judges about the fallout.
It's Tuesday, June 23rd.
Nick, welcome to the show.
Thanks for having me.
Nick, talk for a moment about why in this moment you decided
to spend so much time reporting on the judges of the United States immigration court system.
Well, I think that when most Americans think about President Trump's immigration crackdown,
They picture the shock and awe campaign that dominated the headlines for months.
The images of federal agents being sent into US cities to do mass raids and arrest as many immigrants as possible.
Right.
Generated a huge amount of outrage, consumed the country for weeks.
Exactly.
But what we found is that while that was sucking up most of the attention, the administration
was also engaged in a quieter much more meticulous overhaul of a hugely consequential part of the immigration system.
And that's the immigration court system.
That's basically the process that decides an immigrant's fate and can order them removed from the country.
Or decide to keep them in the country.