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From The Hill:
Appeals court says Trump administration can move forward with expanding fast-track deportations
By Harper Neidig – 06/23/20 11:03 AM EDTA federal appeals court on Tuesday ruled that the Trump administration move forward with expanding a procedure for quickly deporting undocumented immigrants despite a lawsuit against the program.
A three-judge panel on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a preliminary injunction against the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) new rule that significantly expands the number of undocumented immigrants who can be deported without being able to make their case to a judge or accessing an attorney.
In the 2-1 ruling, the majority wrote that a group of nonprofits had legal standing to bring the lawsuit but that immigration law granting broad authority to DHS makes their case unlikely to succeed.
“There could hardly be a more definitive expression of congressional intent to leave the decision about the scope of expedited removal, within statutory bounds, to the Secretary’s independent judgment,” Judge Patricia Millett wrote in the majority decision.
Millett, an Obama appointee, and Judge Harry Edwards, a Carter appointee, were in the panel’s majority. Judge Neomi Rao, appointed by President Trump, dissented, arguing the lawsuit should have been thrown out altogether.
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As due process dies across America, expect the abuses by DHS Enforcement to increase. Any individual who can’t prove legal status on the spot or foreign national who can’t show two years U.S. residence could be detained and deported by ICE and CBP without consulting a lawyer or seeing a judge.
It’s actually a 1996 law that prior Administrations chose to limit to recent illegal entrants near the border. Now, individuals who don’t carry documents proving status or sufficient length of residence could be summarily removed anywhere in the U.S.
How long will it be before the first Mexican American is illegally harassed or removed?
How many Americans of color trust DHS to “do the right thing?”
We’ll see.
PWS
06-23-20