In September 2019, the Department of Homeland Security opened two tent courts along the border, in Laredo and Brownsville, where as many as four hundred asylum seekers in MPP could be processed each day. People who showed up at ports of entry for their hearings were sent directly to these makeshift courts. The rationale, according to a report in The Washington Post, was for US authorities “to give asylum seekers access to the U.S. court system without giving them physical access to the United States.” The serial dislocations of MPP—the staggered, piecemeal hearings; the long waits; the
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