This collection brings together ethnographers engaged in court-watching, accompaniment in and beyond detained settings, expert witnessing, and collaborative documentation projects with attorneys, students, and community partners. These contributions show what sustained presence makes legible but statistics and transcripts often elide, filling in the gap that lies between what appears on the record—procedural language, legal categories, judicial decisions—and what unfolds off the record: confusion, waiting, coercion, dread, and the slow violence embedded in the bewildering churn of new legal guidelines. Unlike the physical border, immigration court does not simply block or channel movement at entry; it remakes the boundary through legal classification, evidentiary judgment, and precedent. In doing so, courts produce records and decisions that extend beyond any individual migrant, shaping how future claims will be heard, what forms of suffering become legible, and whose presence can be authorized or refused.