WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge on Friday temporarily blocked the Trump administration from expediting the rapid deportation of undocumented immigrants who are not detained within the United States.
The move is a setback in the Republican administration’s efforts to expand the use of federal government’s rapid removal laws and quickly eliminate immigrants within the country without first appearing before a judge.
President Donald Trump has promised to become an engineer Large expulsion If voters return him to the White House, they run during the 2024 campaign. He then set a goal of deporting one million people a year in the second term.
However, US District Jia Cobb suggested that Washington, DC, Jia Cobb’s expanded use of the rapid removal of immigration by the Trump administration tramples on individual due-process rights.
“In defending this revealing process, the government has a truly surprising argument. Those who enter the country illegally will not undergo the process under the Fifth Amendment, but instead must accept the bounty that Congress has given them,” Cobb wrote in a 48-page opinion published Friday night. “It was right, but not just non-citizens, but everyone will be at risk.”
The Department of Homeland Security announced shortly after Trump took office in January it was expanding its use of rapid removal, a call for the rapid expulsion of undocumented immigrants who had been in the United States for less than two years.
The effort sparked lawsuits by the American Civil Liberties Union and immigration rights groups.
Before the Trump administration pushed for such rapid deportation, removal was used, which was stopped within 100 miles of the border and promoted only to immigrants who were in the US within 14 days.
Former President Joe Biden appointee Cobb had no doubts about the constitutionality of the rapid removal law or the application at the border.
“When applying the law to a large number of people living inside a country that were not previously subject to rapid removal, the government simply holds that they must pay the legitimate process,” she wrote.
She added, “Preferring speed over everything else would lead the government to accidentally eliminate people through this truncated process.”
Cobb agreed earlier this month I will temporarily block it The Trump administration’s efforts to expand deportation of immigrants who have legally entered the United States under a process known as humanitarian parole – an ruling that could benefit hundreds of thousands of people.
In that case, the judge said homeland security exceeds statutory authorities to expand expedited removal for many immigrants. The judge said these migrants faced danger.
Since May, US immigration and customs enforcement officers have been in the hallways to arrest people after a judge has accepted a government request to dismiss the deportation case. After the arrest, the government renews the deportation lawsuit, but under rapid authority.
You can suspend a quick truck deportation by filing an asylum claim, but people may not recognize that right, and even so, if the initial screening fails, they can be quickly removed.
