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.