Not so fast, ICE: People who enter the country illegally may still "have a weighty liberty interest in remaining here and therefore must be afforded due process under the Fifth Amendment," a new federal court ruling says.
The decision strikes a blow against the Trump administration's expanded "expedited removal" policy for undocumented migrants and threatens President Donald Trump's mass deportation plans. The expanded application "was widely considered a key tool for the administration to swiftly carry out deportations," notes Marianne LeVine at The Washington Post.
An expedited removal policy has long been used to deport people apprehended near the U.S.-Mexico border after entering the country within the two weeks prior. But under a new Homeland Security policy issued in January, the Trump administration sought to apply expedited removal to illegal immigrants found anywhere in the country, even if they had been here for a significant amount of time.
