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.

Immigration officers in plain clothes put a handcuffed woman into the back seat of an unmarked car and drove off Wednesday, marking the third consecutive day that agents arrested those who showed up for hearings at immigration court in southwest Houston.