Judge Matthew Morrissey fired off their names one by one over the course of an hour.

Castro, Leiva, Galicia, Durán, Cucul, Oporta, Pérez, Sierra.

Appearing in colored jumpsuits on a screen in Morrissey’s courtroom, the men come from different places across Latin America and sit in different jails across Nebraska and Iowa. But they have something in common: They’re all facing deportation.

A year ago, Morrissey managed the Omaha Immigration Court’s detained cases almost all by himself. But as President Donald Trump’s administration pursues mass deportation goals, the jail docket — more than 300 names long in August — has grown far beyond what one judge can handle, further straining one of the nation’s most backlogged courts.

Nebraska immigration lawyers say the surge in detained cases an

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