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Trump admin tells immigration judges to dismiss cases in tactic to speed up arrests
- The Trump administration issued a May 30, 2025 memo directing immigration judges to allow DHS lawyers to make oral motions and quickly dismiss pending cases nationwide.
- This policy aims to accelerate deportations by bypassing immigrants' typical 10-day response period amid reports of over 51,000 migrants in ICE custody by late May.
- The directive mandates that oral decisions must conclude during the same session in which testimony and arguments end, while ICE facilities, funded for 41,500 detainees, continue to struggle with overcrowding.
- Immigration judges find the policy undermines fairness and due process, as dismissing cases allows ICE to detain more people but may not speed deportations due to capacity limits.
- This tactic coincides with increased enforcement that included National Guard deployments, nearly 200 arrests during protests in Los Angeles, and a White House push to increase detentions.
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Federal agents are using a legal shortcut to quickly deport migrants
This article first appeared in Outlier Media. This story also appeared in Outlier Media Federal agents used a little-known immigration policy called “expedited removal” to arrest migrants outside a Detroit courtroom on Wednesday. Congress created expedited removal in 1996, and every president since has used it as part of their immigration enforcement strategy. President Donald Trump, however, has applied it more broad…
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