On this episode of Behind The Lens, reporter Delaney Nolan joins Lens editor Katy Reckdahl to debate the sharp enhance in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement exercise throughout Louisiana and the mounting authorized challenges surrounding extended detention and public entry to immigration courts.

The variety of individuals held in ICE detention for at the least a yr has elevated five-fold, prompting an unprecedented surge in petitions asking federal judges to intervene. Nolan and Reckdahl study what’s driving the rise, how detainees and their attorneys are responding and why federal courts have gotten a essential battleground.

In addition they focus on developments in Baton Rouge, the place witnesses have joined a federal lawsuit difficult restrictions on public entry to immigration hearings. Amid the litigation, a Louisiana immigration decide instructed courtroom employees to permit members of the general public to watch proceedings, whereas sustaining that denying entry was by no means official courtroom coverage.

The episode additionally revisits the case of an infirm 77-year-old man whose detention was sharply criticized by a federal decide in Baton Rouge. After the courtroom ordered his launch, ICE detained him once more, elevating new questions concerning the company’s authority, due course of and compliance with federal courtroom rulings.

Friends: Delaney Nolan and Katy Reckdahl
Host: Carolyne Heldman

Theme music by Podington Bear. Extra music this week, “Jack,” by Podington Bear.

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