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Adolfo Flores, BuzzFeed News, Jan. 13, 2020 "The Trump administration recently agreed to open its "tent courts," makeshift tribunals where immigrants made to wait in Mexico attend hearings, but lawyers and legal observers say the setup...

Michelle Hackman, Wall Street Journal, Dec. 29, 2019 "The Department of Homeland Security is opening makeshift immigration tent courts erected along the U.S.-Mexico border to the public, following months of criticism over a lack of transparency...

Priscilla Alvarez, CNN, Dec. 6, 2019 "More immigration judges will begin conducting hearings over video conferencing at tent courts along the US-Mexico border, raising concerns among lawyers about transparency in the immigration process. Earlier...

The American Immigration Lawyers Association, Amnesty International USA, The National Immigrant Justice Center and the Women’s Refugee Commission submitted a letter to Congress on Oct. 7, 2019 : "The undersigned organizations respectfully call on...

Gus Bova, Texas Observer, Sept. 24, 2019 "In Laredo and Brownsville, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has taken the unusual step of building tent court facilities alongside the ports of entry. There, members of the press and public are...

Andrew R. Calderón, The Marshall Project, Sept. 13, 2019 "Early this year, the Trump administration began forcing thousands of migrants seeking asylum to return to Mexico, to wait there for immigration court hearings that would decide whether they...

Adolfo Flores, BuzzFeed News, Sept. 11, 2019 "Tent border courts for asylum-seekers forced to return to Mexico under a Trump administration policy have opened for hearings Wednesday in Laredo, Texas — but few got to see inside as the public, including...

Debbie Nathan, The Intercept, June 28, 2019 "A TRUMP ADMINISTRATION program that banishes asylum-seekers to perilous Mexican border cities could expand exponentially — and disastrously — with a new plan to hold mass video proceedings in tents along...

Washington Post, Apr. 26, 2019 "Senior Defense Department officials have recommended that acting defense secretary Patrick Shanahan approve a new request from the Department of Homeland Security to provide military lawyers, cooks and drivers to...