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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Alex Woodward

Judge blasts Trump team’s ‘startling’ attempt to rapidly deport immigrants: ‘Violates due process’

A federal judge has blocked Donald Trump’s administration from rapidly deporting immigrants by using a fast-tracked removal process central to the president’s mass deportation agenda.

The “expedited removal” process applies to undocumented immigrants who cannot prove they have been in the country longer than two years — historically, that meant people illegally crossing the southern border.

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