Trump administration opens remote immigration courts, raising due process concerns

In the long arc of American immigration law, the courtroom has served as the last formal space where those facing removal could speak and be heard. The Trump administration's decision to relocate immigration proceedings to remote, less accessible facilities quietly narrows that space — not by closing the door outright, but by moving the door somewhere most cannot reach. What unfolds is a tension as old as governance itself: the state's interest in efficiency pressing against the individual's claim to a fair hearing before losing everything.