A federal judge temporarily enjoined the Trump administration from carrying out expedited deportations of undocumented migrants detained in the U.S. interior. U.S. District Judge Jia Cobb concluded the administration's expanded use of expedited removal raises serious Fifth Amendment due process concerns. The Department of Homeland Security announced an expansion early in the administration to apply expedited removal to migrants present less than two years, prompting lawsuits by the ACLU and immigrant rights groups. Previously, expedited removal was limited to migrants stopped within 100 miles of the border who had been in the country less than 14 days. Cobb did not question the statute's border application.
WASHINGTON A federal judge on Friday temporarily blocked the Trump administration from carrying out speedy deportations of undocumented migrants detained in the interior of the United States. The move is a setback for the Republican administration's efforts to expand the use of the federal expedited removal statute to quickly remove some migrants in the country illegally without appearing before a judge first.
U.S. District Judge Jia Cobb in Washington, D.C., suggested the Trump administration's expanded use of the expedited removal of migrants is trampling on individuals' due process rights. "In defending this skimpy process, the Government makes a truly startling argument: that those who entered the country illegally are entitled to no process under the Fifth Amendment, but instead must accept whatever grace Congress affords them," Cobb wrote in a 48-page opinion issued Friday night. "Were that right, not only noncitizens, but everyone would be at risk."
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