Immigration Courts Are Stacking Over 100 Cases Into Single Hearings to Manufacture Deportations

New immigration court data and qualitative research detail how “mega-master” calendar hearings operate: well over 100 removal cases are piled on short notice into a single, impossibly crowded hearing, generating removal orders at volume and pushing the courts toward breaking point. The analysis expands on the practice first reported in May, showing how scheduling itself has become a deportation tool.