President Donald Trump’s administration can fast-track deportations across the nation, a split federal appeals court panel ruled on June 23.
The Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) January 2025 order that authorized sped-up removal for many illegal immigrants fell within the authority granted to immigration officials by Congress, a majority of a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit concluded.
The order cleared immigration personnel to speed up deportations for illegal aliens who entered the country without valid documentation or through fraud, had not been paroled, or had not proven that they were present in the United States for at least two years preceding a determination that they must be deported….