Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers — often dressed in plainclothes — are now arresting immigrants at courthouses nationwide, sometimes moments after their hearings end. Why it matters: The courthouse crackdown is part of a sweeping Trump administration effort to fast-track removals and increase the number of deportations this year — a strategy that's dramatically expanding who gets targeted and how.

Three men were arrested at a southwest Houston immigration court Monday by ICE agents. The arrests appeared to be a local example of an ICE strategy happening around the United States: arresting people after they show up to their hearing at immigration court.

For the second consecutive day, plainclothes ICE agents have arrested asylum seekers just outside the South Gessner Immigration Court in Houston. On Tuesday, three men — two from Venezuela and one from Mexico — were taken into custody moments after a judge dismissed their asylum cases.