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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.

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