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Asylum seekers' cases failing

Ana Karen Torres Martínez with her 3-year-old daughter, Addison Camilt Torres, in Raleigh, N.C. Torres fled Mexico in 2016 after a woman she said she believed had ties to a Mexican drug cartel abducted her other young daughter. She is applying for asylum. Photo for The Washington Post by Logan Cyrus
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The Marshall Project · Julia Preston

CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Toward the end of a recent morning hearing in immigration court, Judge V. Stuart Couch looked out from his bench on a nearly empty chamber. On one side sat the prosecutor. But at the table for the immigrants, the chairs were vacant.

From a stack of case files, Couch called out names of asylum seekers: Dina Marciela Baires from El Salvador…

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