Thousands of asylum-seekers abandon their cases as ICE seeks to deport them to nations they aren’t from
Willian Yacelga Benalcazar’s asylum case followed what had become a similar pattern in immigration courts across the country: After telling a judge he feared returning to his home country, the judge ordered his deportation to another one. Yacelga, who said he fled threats from criminal gangs in Ecuador, was facing removal to Honduras. By March, … Read more
