The Trump administration's approach involves dismissing asylum-seekers' cases during hearings, leading to their rapid deportation by ICE officers. In San Francisco, judges infrequently grant such dismissals, but ICE consistently arrests individuals following these requests. A recent case involved an indigenous woman, whose hearings were scheduled for a later date, yet she was arrested. Communication challenges arose during her hearing, leading to reschedule. While three other cases were being dismissed, two individuals were arrested immediately after leaving the courtroom.
In San Francisco, judges rarely grant those moves to dismiss. But ICE officers nearly always arrest immigrants whose cases DHS has moved to dismiss anyway.
ICE officers in San Francisco went a step further: arresting an indigenous speaker whose case the DHS attorney did not even move to dismiss.
The task proved tricky. Park eventually gave up, and asked the woman to come back in October, when he had already scheduled several other hearings with Mam-speakers.
Two of the three asylum-seekers had been arrested in the hallway the moment they left the courtroom.
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