By Andrew Hay May 31 (Reuters) - Civil rights groups have filed a lawsuit over alleged human rights abuses at the United States' largest immigration detention center in El Paso, Texas, where three people have died in the nine months since it opened.

The Justice Department is moving up the court hearings for hundreds of immigrants and scheduling them for mass hearings. If they don't show up, they could be ordered deported.

Mikie Sherrill announced plans Friday to create protected protest zones near a federal immigration detention center in Newark that has become the site of repeated clashes between federal law enforcement officials and activists.

New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill has sent state police to establish designated protest zones and vehicle checkpoints outside an immigration detention center in Newark.

The additions come after the ouster of dozens of immigration judges across the country by the Trump administration over the past year.

Adelante Chicago. Chicago held a People's Hearing on Immigration Enforcement. We spoke with one of the organizers, Political Strategist and Community Leader Luis Miranda. The next People's hearing will be in Los Angeles California.

An ICE agent facing several assault charges in connection with a shooting involving two Venezuelan people in Minnesota earlier this year has been arrested in Texas, the Hennepin County Attorney’s Office said.

Steven Thal has spent decades in immigration court. Recently, he said he shed a rare tear as a judge denied asylum to a family who say they came to Minnesota to escape sexual violence and extortion.

Hello, and welcome back to Immigration Unmasked. There are just 15 days to go before the World Cup matches kick off in Foxborough, and the region is abuzz. Federal immigration officials don’t intend to “round up” immigrants en masse at the World Cup,

Threats to remove customs staff at airports in sanctuary cities “would be akin to just shooting ourselves in the foot,” he said.