Fast turn around HAS been limited to to US Southern Border….
Under Miller and Trump the policy has expanded…..
A Federal Judge has ruled that those ‘fast-track’ “expedited removal.’s” are against the Supreme court ruling that migrant’s MUST have legal access before being exported from America…..
The judge also touched on the Trump/Miller process to canceling hearings for migrants so that the subject could, and would be detained outside the hearing room and exported out of the US….
In a decision issued Friday evening, U.S. District Judge Jia Cobb granted a request by an immigrant advocacy group to put a hold on a pair of policies the administration issued in January that made millions more immigrants eligible for expulsion from the U.S. under a process known as “expedited removal.”
For most of the past two decades, the fast-track deportation process was limited to foreigners intercepted within 100 miles of a U.S. land border and within two weeks of entering the U.S. However, in 2019, during President Donald Trump’s first term, the policy was expanded to apply anywhere in the U.S. and to any unauthorized immigrant who cannot show they have been in the country for more than two years.
The Biden administration rolled the policy back, but Trump put it back in place when he returned to office in January.
Cobb said foreigners impacted by the expansion “have a weighty liberty interest in remaining here and therefore must be afforded due process under the Fifth Amendment.”
“When it exponentially expanded the population subject to expedited removal, the Government did not, however, in any way adapt its procedures to this new group of people,” wrote Cobb, a Biden appointee based in Washington. “But when it comes to people living in the interior of the country, prioritizing speed over all else will inevitably lead the Government to erroneously remove people via this truncated process.”
Cobb described as “startling” and “extraordinary” the Trump administration’s claim that foreigners who have lived in the U.S. for years have no due process rights to fight their deportation beyond whatever process Congress has authorized. Cobb said the urgency of the need for relief in the case was underscored by the Trump administration’s adoption of a new, controversial tactic under which immigrants’ ordinary immigration court proceedings are dismissed at a hearing and the immigrants are then arrested and put into thefast-track deportation process.
Cobb’s ruling takes effect immediately. She denied a request by the administration to put it on hold for two weeks to allow Justice Department lawyers to seek relief from a higher court…..
Note….
Last day or two has featured Judges around the country ruling AGAINST Trump & Co. on several policies….