For the Trump administration and its allies, this is a strategic triumph. It preserves a streamlined system, prevents asylum backlogs from detonating into chaos, and blocks efforts to turn every appeal into a fresh factual trial. But for migrants fleeing hitmen, gangs, and failed states, it means the first loss in immigration court may effectively be the last—and the next stop is often a one-way flight back into the danger they risked everything to escape.
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