Electronics in detention areas are strictly prohibited, but Ahmed submitted paperwork the night before to ensure that at the beginning of the hearing, as Khalil's legal representative, she could comply with the EOIR policy in accordance with her laptop. Nevertheless, in the sworn in, Ahmed said that minutes before the hearing, staff at the detention center informed her that she was forbidden to bring her equipment inside, forced her to hand over her laptop to staff and enter the court empty-handed, according to Comans' instructions. After the hearing began, Harrier said she sat across from three homeland security lawyers, each with her own laptop.

Ahmed said that the image of bank boxes piled up by Hollywood lawyer Wheeling is mostly outdated, with Ahmed's value gigabit data stored on numbers. “You are actually using technology that has to respond in real time or ask in real time or show to customers in real time, what evidence the government may be talking about or responding to,” she told Wired. “It’s always very critical because you want to make sure that any representation you make is fact.”

Michelle Méndez, a lawyer for the National Immigration Program, said the asymmetry of access to technology and resources between governments and non-citizens in court reflects who controls it.

“As long as the immigration court is guided by the administration, non-citizens will never receive fundamentally fair proceedings,” she said.

Manders noted that since February 2022, the Justice Department has required all immigration attorneys to submit documents electronically to the court, effectively determining that attorneys should rely on digital access to digital access, case citations and other subjects rather than risking expensive persistence in the well-known opposition court.

"In this case, the image of the person in the box is certainly appropriate," she said. "The worst case scenario is that lawyers miss the ability to offer the court the court seeks. They don't."

The judges at the Ice Center, Shad Rice and Khalil, both denied the order ban, and Ahmed said she received only a few minutes before the hearing began. "When I asked why, I was told it was the immigration judge who made the decision," she told Wade, who asked to speak privately with the judge before the hearing, but her request was denied.

Ahmed said the Koemans finally informed her that the electronics ban had arrived as required by the ice facility. However, the request was denied when forced to allow Ahmed to communicate with the warden who was also in the room at the time. "It was particularly unfair to Mr. Khalil, who looked at the lawyers at the Department of Homeland Security, who had three laptops on their desks," she said. She added that at the hearing, government lawyers were conducting Google searches, writing emails and reading from documents at the time of the lawsuit.