A sweeping new investigation by the Associated Press is raising serious questions about what's happening inside America's immigration courts.

White House correspondent Liz Landers has more on how the administration has circumvented the asylum process.

Every day all across the country, asylum cases are being tossed out, and asylum seekers exit the courtroom

into the waiting arms and cuffs of immigration officers.

That, according to a new report from the Associated Press, headlined, migrants thought

they were in a court for a routine hearing.

Instead, it was a deportation trap.

One of its authors, Josh Goodman, joins us now.

Josh, thank you for joining the NewsHour.

Thank you.

In reporting this story, you and your colleagues went to 21 immigration courts.

Can you describe the scene as you watch migrants walk into court and then walk out into a legal snare?

Yeah, we witnessed multiple arrests over several months.

This was a routine practice by which government attorneys would go before a judge,

dismiss a case, which would typically be a good outcome for someone trying to stay in the United States.

And as soon as they would leave the

courtroom, they would be arrested by ICE agents or federal agents frequently with masks. Nationwide,

it's estimated that there were over 2,000 arrests in this manner. Some of the courts were

quite chaotic, arresting people in hallways, people were being trapped in elevators, journalists

were being rough-handled scenes

of fathers being torn from their children.

Women begging federal agents to let their husbands go, these are people who wanted to follow

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