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A NYC judge called her 121-case day ‘some fun new adventure,’ then ordered nearly 40 people deported for not showing up

New York City immigration judges are handling over 100 cases per day under new 'mega master' hearings, raising concerns about unjust deportation removals.

The Jacob K. Javits Federal Building at 26 Federal Plaza in Lower Manhattan, the building that houses New York City's immigration court.

A NYC judge called her 121-case day ‘some fun new adventure,’ then ordered nearly 40 people deported for not showing up

New York City immigration judges are handling over 100 cases per day under new 'mega master' hearings, raising concerns about unjust deportation removals.

A NYC judge called her 121-case day ‘some fun new adventure,’ then ordered nearly 40 people deported for not showing up
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On June 1, Immigration Judge Arya Ranasinghe walked into a Lower Manhattan courtroom with 121 cases on her docket for a single day, a workload that THE CITY reported was virtually unheard of in New York City before that morning. “I have such a voluminous docket today,” she said from the bench, then called it “some fun new adventure,” adding, “We do the best we can.” By the end of the day she had ordered nearly 40 people and their relatives deported, most of them because they never walked through the door.

This is the debut of what the Justice Department calls a “mega master” hearing in New York. A normal master calendar hearing is the first, routine step in a deportation…

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