In a high-stakes deportation case involving Columbia graduate Mahmoud Khalil, civil rights advocates are raising the alarm over an unfair government advantage in court. WIRED recently reported on an incident in which Khalil’s ACLU attorney was barred from using her laptop during a pivotal immigration hearing, all the while government lawyers were granted full digital access.
Highlighting the broader implications, our VP of U.S. Advocacy and Litigation Anthony Enriquez noted,
“We talk a lot about due process, about how it applies to everyone in the country, whether or not you’re a citizen or a non-citizen. But the very procedures and the courts that we use to determine whether or not people do have a right to stay in the United States, there’s a fundamental flaw in them where both the prosecutor and the adjudicator are part of the same prosecutorial branch, the executive branch.”
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