Immigrant rights advocates are weighing legal action against the Trump administration for sending undocumented immigrants summonses with false court dates. The immigrants are reportedly showing up for hearings that don't exist, unnecessarily burdening already overwrought court staff at a time when the White House is ostensibly working to fulfill pledges to slash a growing caseload.
For a little over a month now, immigrant rights advocates have seen summonses for dates when the judge couldn't possibly hear a case and have received reports of immigrants showing up for hearings only to find that they had arrived unexpected, says Camille Mackler, director of legal policy at the New York Immigration Coalition.