By CEDAR ATTANASIO
Associated Press

EL PASO, Texas (AP) - U.S. immigration courts sharply scaled back operations Monday but have stopped well short of a total shutdown demanded by employees, including judges and government attorneys. The partial shutdown doesn't extend to courts in immigration detention centers or to the government's “Migrant Protection Protocols” policy to make asylum-seekers wait in Mexico for hearings in the U.S. Wearing face masks, about 30 asylum-seekers who had been waiting in Mexico were escorted by authorities into a federal building on Monday in El Paso, Texas, some carrying children.

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