WashingtonDeportation orders issued in absentia nearly tripled since January 2025, Inkstick, a foreign-policy outlet, reported.
A Princeton report ties the US rise to courthouse arrests that make appearing a risk.
Master calendar hearings can issue a dozen removal orders in half an hour, and some people never learn their date moved.
Congress wrote the law that gives the attorney general this power, says Princeton anthropologist Amelia Frank-Vitale.
How each outlet framed it
- Inkstick leans critical
- attributes the near-tripling of in absentia removal orders to DHS arrests at courthouses, citing a Princeton report on master calendar hearings
Sources: Inkstick