Cecilia Lei
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There's a little-known immigration court that's become increasingly important under the Trump administration.
And as NPR has been reporting, it could be quietly reshaping policy in some dramatic ways.
Under the U.S.
Constitution, non-citizens, including undocumented immigrants, are guaranteed due process rights.
That means the government is expected to take steps to ensure fairness in deportation proceedings, including providing a right to a hearing.
Ximena Bustillo covers immigration policy for NPR.
After the hearing process concludes, a judge makes their ruling which immigrants could appeal.
After that, the case would go to an obscure administrative court.
Because of that, the Trump administration has been able to reshape the Board of Immigration Appeals, and it's helping them execute its mass deportation campaign and set immigration policy across the country.
For one thing, the size of the board has shrunk from 28 judges to 15.
Most of them were selected by Trump.
This board also makes decisions which set precedents for how immigration law gets interpreted.
Bustillo told us that it's in these decisions where she saw the impact of how the administration has changed the board's makeup.
In 2025, it put out a significantly higher number of these decisions than in years past, and a vast majority of them sided with the DHS.
Some examples of the rulings include making it harder for immigration courts to release individuals on bond instead of detaining them and making it easier to deport immigrants to countries that they're not from.
Recently, the Trump administration has also tried to dramatically streamline this appeal process in order to deport more immigrants, but a federal judge temporarily put a halt to that.
Changing the Board of Immigration Appeals is just one of the ways the administration is reshaping the executive branch's immigration court system.
According to NPR, at least 100 judges were fired in the last year, and others have resigned or retired.
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