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Inside a New York City immigration courtroom at 26 Federal Plaza on Friday morning, 90 people had cases before a single immigration judge. People described hastily making plans to get to court, some from hundreds of miles away, having learned about their new hearing date only days in advance.

By the end of the morning, dozens of people still hadn’t shown up and the judge ordered them removed from the country.

These removal orders of immigrants who didn’t show up to court reached record heights in June nationwide and more than doubled in New York City last month, according to a new report released by bklg.org, a nonprofit that analyzes immigration court data to help immigration attorneys keep on top of their clients’ cases. The increase occurred during the first few weeks of a new Trump administration effort to speed up deportations through large-scale court proceedings known as “mega master” hearings.

In June, 4,447 people were ordered removed by immigration judges in the city “in absentia,” meaning they’d missed their hearings, the report found. That was more than double the number in May when 2,189 were ordered removed in absentia.

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In absentia removal orders have been increasing annually since 2021, as the number of people crossing the U.S. border and the number of deportation cases rose, but June showed a dramatic jump and surpassed any month on record, going back to the late 1990s when the government started keeping track.

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The federal government is required by law to send written notices of any new hearing dates by mail, but many attending these hearings told The City Reporter they’d only learned of the date change because they happened to check the Executive Office for Immigration Review’s online portal or another similar app that helped them monitor their cases. People who miss hearings in deportation proceedings are subject to automatic removal orders, clearing the way for the government to deport them.

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Immigration advocates have been urging anyone in deportation proceedings to double-check EOIR’s portal daily to monitor their case for any changes.