Indianapolis' immigration court described as "chaos"

Falene Lindor walked past six elevator doors on the first floor of the Minton-Capehart Federal Building , not knowing where she was supposed to go.

There were no staffers available to help — just signs and directions written in English. But Lindor, an asylum seeker from Haiti who had come to downtown Indianapolis for her 8:30 a.m. court hearing, primarily speaks Haitian Creole.

She opened the Google Translate app on her phone and began showing strangers a prompt asking:

“Where is immigration court?”

IndyStar spent 16 hours over several August days inside the federal building that now houses one of the country’s newest immigration courts, opened earlier this year to deal with a growing backlog of cases as President Donald Trump's administration continues its aggressive push for mas