NEW: DHS officials expect about 150 immigration judges across the US will be selected to handle cases involving asylum-seekers forced to remain in Mexico while their cases proceed.
One immigration court official said it could "wreak havoc" on US dockets.
Around a dozen judges currently handle these cases currently and the cases can take months to get scheduled.
DHS officials hope to change that by opening up immigration hearing facilities at the border.
Officials plan to open two border courts in Texas — Laredo and Brownsville — by the middle of September, in which they will hear up to 20 cases per day, according to a government briefing document obtained by BuzzFeed News.
The cases heard at the border are expected to be conducted primarily via televideo, allowing for more judges across the country to be brought into the process.
Assistants will help organize the hearings by sending case documents to judges and operating the video systems.
At a San Diego court that has presided over “Remain in Mexico” cases, judges have been told to prioritize the hearings over others, according to a source. As a result, some immigrants who have waited for their previously-scheduled cases will likely have their hearings delayed.
“Those families have been waiting for years to have their cases heard, and now will wait another two or three years, and due process is denied by the delay — evidence becomes stale, witnesses die, country conditions change."
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Scoop: The Biden administration is considering forcing some migrant families who enter the country without authorization to remain near the border in Texas while awaiting asylum screening, effectively limiting their ability to travel within the U.S.
The proposal, which recalls President Reagan’s efforts to limit asylum-seekers’ movements in the late 1980s, is likely to draw fierce opposition from immigrant rights groups and border-state officials.
In the late 1980s, the Reagan administration forced thousands of migrants to apply for asylum near where they crossed in south Texas, and receive their decision there as well.
Officials were clear at the time that the policy was intended to deter families from crossing.
The charge - 1459 - was conceived decades ago to fight drug trafficking, and it carries a maximum sentence of one year, double the length of the more well-known charge of illegal entry, which carries a top-end sentence of six months.
More than 60% of those charged under the failure to report law were from Muslim-majority countries, including Afghanistan, Syria, Iran and Mali, according to a Times analysis of hundreds of federal court records.
One of the men we spoke with told us his brother had already been deported from the US after fleeing the draft.
In Russia, his brother hides inside, unwilling to venture onto public streets, fearful that he will be captured and sent to the front if Russian authorities find him.
One man refused to get on his deportation flight.
The other fainted at the airport.
“I am now considered a deserter,” one of them said, adding he has heard rumors of deportees being “disappeared” — falling into the hands of Russian authorities, lost to their families.
--medical personnel "failed to document numerous medical encounters, emergency antipyretic interventions, and administrations of medicine"
--BP staff were not aware she had sickle cell anemia, per CBP
On 5/17, the nurse practitioner "reported checking the girl’s heart rate and blood oxygen saturation with a pulse oximeter during each visit with normal findings, and administering Ondansetron (Zofran) for nausea at 9:33 a.m."
The policy operates "just as the Trump administration’s prior asylum bans did: Asylum seekers subject to the Rule—all non-Mexicans—are categorically barred unless they satisfy one of the enumerated and limited conditions or exceptions."
"That’s a simple ban with narrow exemptions, and it turns the asylum process on its head," the suit continues.
BREAKING: A federal court judge in Florida has BLOCKED the Biden administration from releasing migrants from Border Patrol custody without court notices under a memo signed this week.
The block is in effect tonight and will last for 2 weeks.
Expect the Biden admin to appeal.
The Biden administration declared in court earlier today that without the release policy and other measures there could be 45,000 migrants in custody by the end of the month.
As of Wednesday, there were more than 28,000 in custody - already way over.
"this problem is largely one of Defendants’ own making through the adoption an implementation of policies that have encouraged the so-called “irregular migration” that has become fairly regular over the past 2 years," the judge countered.