The case focused on a policy shift…that authorized #DHS to launch quick #deportations, across the country & without court proceedings, of undocumented immigrants who cannot prove they have lived in the country for >2yrs.
Known as expedited removal, such deportations have been carried out for decades, but of people arrested at or near the southern border. The #Trump admin sought to expand the practice nationwide, to hasten the removal of people arrested deep inside the country.
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In a 48-page opinion, Judge Jia M. Cobb of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia wrote that the #Trump administration had acted recklessly in a frenzied effort to quickly remove as many people as possible, likely violating #DueProcess rights & risking #WrongfulDetentions.
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.276674/gov.uscourts.dcd.276674.64.0.pdf
She wrote that the #Trump admin had taken over a process that was once as simple as turning back immigrants w/negligible ties to the US “after a single conversation with an immigration officer” near the southern border, making it a default practice in places as far away as NY.
“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 wrote.
In reaching her decision, Judge Cobb took particular note of the aggressive evolution of the #Trump administration’s #immigration policy in recent months.
She wrote that in a race to meet quotas — as high as 3,000 immigration arrests per day — the administration had resorted to staking out #courthouses, targeting people pursuing #asylum claims & other pathways to remain in the country legally.
Cobb also forcefully rejected the #Trump admin’s argument…that immigrants who crossed the border illegally forfeited certain protections, such as the right to fight their removal in court. She warned the argument was so broad it could easily ensnare US citizens.
“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 #FifthAmendment…,” she wrote.
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