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Posted on 05/23/2025 7:43:34 PM PDT by 11th_VA
The Trump administration has launched an operation to terminate the immigration court cases of certain migrants, in order to arrest them and place them in a fast-tracked deportation process instead, government officials and attorneys told CBS News.
Lawyers and advocates this week reported arrests of migrants outside of immigration courthouses across the U.S., saying teams of Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers had detained individuals whose cases in front of immigration judges had just been terminated at the request of the government.
Two Department of Homeland Security officials told CBS News that ICE is conducting an operation to expedite the deportation of migrants with court hearings scheduled in the near future. It's the latest step taken by the Trump administration to dramatically ramp up immigration arrests across the country and fulfill what the president has promised will be the largest deportation campaign in American history.
The operation involves ICE prosecutors asking immigration judges to terminate the court cases of certain migrants, so agents at the agency can instead arrest those individuals and place them in a more rapid deportation process known as "expedited removal," the officials said.
Unlike immigration court proceedings, which can take years to complete due to a massive backlog of 4 million pending cases, the expedited removal process allows officials to more quickly deport migrants, if their cases satisfy certain conditions.
Migrants who lack proper documents and can't prove they have been in the U.S. for more than two years are eligible to be deported under expedited removal, without a court hearing.
Historically, officials were only allowed to use expedited removal on unauthorized immigrants detained within 100 miles of an international border and who had been in the U.S. for less than two weeks. But the Trump administration vastly expanded its scope soon after taking office.
Expedited removal can also be applied to unauthorized migrants who entered the U.S. with the government's permission at legal entry points, and there's no two-year entry limit for those cases. That would place the nearly 1 million migrants who entered the U.S. under a Biden administration program known as CBP One at risk of being targeted by the new ICE operation.
While those placed in expedited removal can be deported without a hearing in immigration court, they are entitled to an interview with an asylum officer if they say they are afraid of being persecuted in their home country. If they pass those screenings, they get a chance to plead their case in immigration court.
In a statement, Department of Homeland Security spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin faulted the Biden administration for releasing many migrants with notices to appear in immigration court, instead of trying to deport them quickly through expedited removal.
"ICE is now following the law and placing these illegal aliens in expedited removal, as they always should have been," McLaughlin said.
Leandro Ferrer, an immigration lawyer based in Phoenix, Arizona, said his clients, two Cuban migrants, appear to have been swept up in the ICE operation when they showed up to their immigration court hearing on Tuesday.
"There was a sense of relief when the government prosecutors moved to dismiss the removal proceedings," Ferrer recounted. "This has always been, historically, a result that is highly sought after and either we try to win a case on the merits of an application or we try to dismiss the removal proceedings."
But to his shock and dismay, Ferrer said ICE agents arrested his clients immediately after they left the courtroom.
"They did not provide identification, they did not have an arrest warrant, they did not make any attempt to establish whether or not they had committed a crime," Ferrer added. "They just went in and took them." …
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I wonder if the endless judges orders are pushing Trump to take a more extreme stand?
By that evening they were in ICE custody on their way to a private detention center in Pahrump, this according to the UNLV Immigration Clinic.
In a statement, the clinic said each man was deemed not a threat to public safety. Some had already passed credible fear interviews, a critical first step in applying for asylum.
“This was unheard of until Tuesday,” said Director of the UNLV Immigration Clinic, Michael Kagan.
Adapt, improvise, and overcome
Migrant—a euphemism for illegal alien. Never cede control of the language. As Rush used to say, “false premise.”
invader
And far more millions of new cases the Democrats and ACLU want to delay with individual court trials and lawyers. One judge said the illegals didn't have time to appeal the decision to put them on a plane to be deported. Months or years of time would be needed for each case.
If the SCOTUS doesn't end this and all the little judge nonsense applying to the country there will be big trouble.
FANTASTIC!!!!!
liberal judge ends in....
Go be criminals in your own country.
If Trump kept the criminal aliens in holding cells but had their children taken by protective services for their safety (no criminal can take their children to jail with them for any crime), he was denounced by sobbing leftists like AOC for separating them.
If he keeps them together to go home to the foreign lands from which they came, he is denounced for deporting children.
Garden Party
song by Rick Nelson
But it’s all right now
I learned my lesson well.
You see, you can’t please everyone
So you got to please yourself.
Faster!
Faster!
Faster!!!
48,734,212 to go...
Get em outta here!
"Expedited removal can also be applied to unauthorized migrants who entered the U.S. with the government's permission at legal entry points..."That bastard Biden and his henchman Mayorkas weren't bothered one bit by their breaking of US immigration law. They just waved in millions upon millions of illegals.
The phrase "take care that the laws be faithfully executed" refers to the Take Care Clause in Article II, Section 3 of the U.S. Constitution, which mandates that the President ensure that laws are enforced and followed. This clause emphasizes the President's responsibility to uphold the law and oversee its execution by federal agencies and officials.
If there was every an impeachable offense in my 74 years, this was it. It's a million times worse than the phony Watergate scandal.
CBS News - oxymoron
“they did not make any attempt to establish whether or not they had committed a crime,” Ferrer added. “They just went in and took them.”
Their physical presence without appropriate documentation is prima facie evidence of a criminal act. Nice try counselor.
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This needs to happen EVERYWHERE!
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