Lawmakers, advocates allege Chicago immigration court violated due process for minors handed removal orders

Source WBEZ
Original Load Date Aug. 26, 2026, 9:01 p.m.
Last Updated Aug. 26, 2026, 9:01 p.m.
Original URL https://www.wbez.org/immigration/2026/08/26/lawmakers-advocates-allege-chicago-immigration-court-violated-due-process-for-minors-handed-removal-orders

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U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin and local advocates sounded the alarm Wednesday over systemic due process violations at Chicago’s downtown immigration court, calling a strategy to speed up their cases and issue deportation orders to unaccompanied minors a “mockery of the justice system.” Durbin, U.S. Rep. Mi...