Immigration Tent Courts at Border Raise Due-Process Concerns

[Elderberry]

WSJ by  Michelle Hackman and Alicia A. Caldwell 12/14/2019

BROWNSVILLE, Texas—Each morning well before sunrise, dozens of immigrants line up on the international bridge here to enter a recently erected tent facility at the U.S. border.

Inside a large wedding-style tent, the government has converted shipping containers into temporary courtrooms, where flat screens show the judge and a translator, who are in front of a camera in chambers miles away.

The tents, which appeared at ports of entry here and up the Rio Grande in Laredo in late summer, are the latest manifestation of the Trump administration’s evolving response to a surge of migrants seeking asylum at the southern border.

Migrants are ushered to these courts dozens at a time, allowing them access to the U.S. legal system without admitting them onto U.S. soil. They are already part of yet another Trump administration experiment, the Migrant Protection Protocols, which requires migrants to live in Mexico for the duration of their court cases.

More: https://www.wsj.com/articles/immigration-tent-courts-at-border-raise-due-process-concerns-11576332002

[PeteS in CA]

The material used to "build" the courtroom is a due process concern? The real "concern" is that these temporary structures partly relieve one aspect of the bottleneck the flood-the-border strategy was designed to cause.