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As the federal government escalates its large-scale immigration raids and protests intensify nationwide, we ask what is happening on the legal side of immigration enforcement when those facing deportation have their day in court.

This week, we continue our coverage on Imperfect Paradise of the Trump administration's immigration crackdown and the reverberating consequences.

To get a look at the reality on the ground, we take you inside an immigration court in Orange County, where a group of volunteer court observers are doing what they can to bear witness and help immigrants and asylum seekers get a fair shot under the law.

We'll discuss how what's happening in these courtrooms is determining the fate of undocumented immigrants in the U.S.

and how everyone involved in the legal system from immigrants to lawyers to judges are struggling to keep up with the Trump administration's

evolving policies. L.A.'s Orange County correspondent Jill Replagal has been reporting on this story,

and she joins us now. Hey, Jill. Hi, Nareda. So Jill, your story starts at the Santa Ana

immigration court. Tell us what the court is like. Yeah, I mean, it doesn't look like a typical

courtroom. It's in an office park, basically. It's like between a couple of county agencies,

and you walk upstairs and go inside, and it's kind of this sort of sterile building. And then once you

get in the courtrooms, they look like courtrooms, but they're very small behind this kind of this sort of sterile building. And then once you get in the courtrooms, they look like courtrooms, but they're very small. Behind this kind of mundane looking facade, really

consequential things are happening. People are there applying for relief from deportation

at different stages of the process. They're trying to adjust their legal status.

They're applying for asylum.

And children are being told, perhaps, that their father has to leave the country.

Asylum seekers are being told they didn't prove that they faced persecution, and they have to leave the country.

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