August 1, 2025
Washington Post
The decision could present a major hurdle for the Trump administration and bar federal immigration officers from summarily deporting hundreds of thousands of people.
A federal judge temporarily blocked the Trump administration from rapidly deporting immigrants granted parole at a port of entry, a setback for the Department of Homeland Security that could affect its ability to remove hundreds of thousands of people.
Expedited removal previously only applied to migrants who were stopped within 100 miles of the border and who had been in the country for less than 14 days. But the Trump administration expanded the policy from the southern border to anywhere in the country and to migrants who have been in the U.S. for two years or less.
“The Trump administration is trying to avoid the immigration court backlog of almost 4 million pending cases, and it’s doing that by using expedited removal,” she said. “So if it’s blocked from using expedited removal in the interior and it needs to put even more people into the immigration court backlog, that’s really going to slow down the mass deportation effort and it could be a major frustration for them.”