I'm Kelly McEvers and this is Embedded, an NPR podcast where we take a story from the

news and go deep.

And today we're talking about the story.

The Obama administration's plan to set up nationwide ranks.

Nationwide immigration rates.

Deportation rates all across the country.

The president says he supports deporting criminal aliens.

Is President Barack Obama the deporter in chief?

Deporter in chief.

The Obama administration has deported more immigrants than any other U.S. administration

in history.

All this while also trying to offer relief to millions of other immigrants through executive

orders that's being argued in the courts.

And with these deportations, it's not like people are just pulled off the streets and

sent back to their country.

Usually if they're caught trying to cross the border illegally or committing a crime,

they're detained.

Then they go before a judge.

Plead their case to stay in the U.S.

So far it sounds a lot like the regular criminal justice system.

But it's not.

The problem is these courts, 57 of them across the U.S. are really hard to access.

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