"Masked ICE agents were once again spotted outside a courtroom on the 12th floor of 26 Federal Plaza on Dec. 3, as they have been for months this year. However, something was different this time. The nameplate of preceding Judge Lori Adams, who had held hearings in that court room, had been scraped clean from the wall. She was one of the eight fired jurists. Inside, however, proceedings went on."
"But the adjournments were a curse in disguise. Masked Federal agents waited outside of a courtroom on the 12th floor of 26 Federal Plaza on Wednesday like they had so many times before over the course of 2025.Photo by Dean Moses It's more of just a disadvantage to the respondents than anything else. I don't think it really impacts ICE enforcement. It's more like, now someone has a 2029 hearing, they're probably not going to get a hearing for many more years, one lawyer said."
Eight immigration judges were fired, and courtrooms at 26 Federal Plaza continued to operate with clerks adjourning cases in place of ousted judges. Nameplates of removed judges were scraped clean while respondents, including many families, arrived for legally mandated hearings and found adjourments instead. Adjournments pushed hearings years into the future, with at least one lawyer noting a 2029 hearing date and calling the situation a kangaroo court. Masked ICE and federal agents waited outside courtrooms, seized at least one respondent in a doorway, and blocked press cameras from following detainees down hallways.
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