A new immigration court has opened in Concord’s Monument Corridor, a predominantly Spanish-speaking neighborhood in Contra Costa County. Fearful that the new court signals faster deportations without due process, immigrant rights groups rallied on the steps opening day. 

The Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) opened the new deportation court on Monday, where ten new courtrooms will hear immigration cases from the following counties: Contra Costa, Solano, Madera, Fresno, Inyo, Tulare, Kings, San Joaquin, Stanislaus, and Mariposa, according to advocates for immigrants. 

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Ruth Dusseault is an investigative reporter and multimedia journalist focused on environment and energy. Her position is supported by the California local news fellowship, a statewide initiative spearheaded by UC Berkeley aimed at supporting local news platforms. While a student at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism (c’23), Ruth developed stories about the social and environmental circumstances of contaminated watersheds around the Great Lakes, Mississippi River and Florida’s Lake Okeechobee. Her thesis explored rights of nature laws in small rural communities. She is a former assistant professor and artist in residence at Georgia Tech’s School of Architecture, and uses photography, film and digital storytelling to report on the engineered systems that undergird modern life.