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Story summary
- Immigration judge Jem Sponzo ordered the removal of twelve unaccompanied minors in a virtual hearing at ICE headquarters in New York City, waiving interpretation so the process finished in under an hour.
- The minors, older boys from Guatemala, Honduras, Colombia, Ecuador and Bangladesh, had pending asylum or Special Immigrant Juvenile petitions.
- A former immigration judge reported roughly a quarter of U.S. immigration judges have been laid off or forced out.
