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Court Clears Nationwide Expedited Removal of Illegal Aliens 7%
By Jim Thomas0%
6/23/2026, 8:56:09 PM
BS Summary: This article contains 12 faulty reasoning types, including Negativity Bias, Self-Serving Bias, and Status Quo Bias, with Appeal to Emotion as the most egregious example at 14% saturation with 73 hits. Analysis detected 464 faulty-reasoning hits from 523 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 22.5% and a BS Rank of 7% (20,561 of 21,887 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 93.90% of the article peer group.
A divided federal appeals court panel cleared the way Monday for the Trump administration to resume nationwide use of expedited removal, lifting a district court stay that had blocked the policy since last summer.
The D.C.
Circuit's 2-1 ruling reinstates a January 2025 directive allowing immigration officers to deport noncitizens encountered anywhere in the country without a hearing if they cannot show two years of continuous U.S. presence.
Judge Justin Walker wrote the majority opinion, joined in large part by Judge Neomi Rao.
Walker concluded that Congress gave the executive branch broad authority to apply expedited removal "to the maximum extent allowed by Congress," and that the administration's expansion fit within that delegation.
He rejected the lower court's finding that the policy denied foreign nationals a meaningful chance to be heard, writing that the system's speed and practical constraints are features the statute itself contemplates.
The decision reverses U.S.
District Judge Jia Cobb, who stayed the rule last August on Fifth Amendment due process grounds, holding that people with longer ties to the country are entitled to more procedural protections than migrants encountered at the border.
Cobb's order had halted the policy for nearly 10 months while the government appealed.
The case, Make the Road New York v.
Noem, No. 25-5320, was brought by the immigrant rights group, represented by the ACLU.
Judge Robert Wilkins dissented, writing that a removal system that does not even require officers to ask how long someone has lived in the United States "is woefully inadequate for persons encountered in the interior of the country."
He pointed to evidence in the record that the Department of Homeland Security has already deported people present in the country longer than two years, the very class the rule's supporters say it is meant to exclude.
Expedited removal, created by Congress in 1996, was for nearly three decades applied only to foreign nationals caught within 100 miles of a land border and within 14 days of entry.
President Donald Trump's Jan. 21, 2025, designation stretched it nationwide, sweeping in any noncitizen who cannot satisfy an officer of two years' continuous presence.
Removal can occur within hours, without review by an immigration judge.
DHS general counsel James Percival said on X that the panel "vindicated our decision to apply the law as written," arguing the prior 14-day limit was an arbitrary administrative ceiling on a statute that reaches back two years.
The American Civil Liberties Union's Anand Balakrishnan, lead counsel for the plaintiffs, said the ruling subjects people to "an unfair and error-prone system" that undermines due process.
A separate suit, Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights v.
Mullin, is pending in the same district court and challenges DHS's revised Form I-867, the sworn-statement document officers use during expedited removal, after the agency stripped long-standing language advising foreign nationals of their right to raise a fear of persecution.
The Make the Road plaintiffs can seek en banc review by the full D.C.
Circuit or petition the Supreme Court.
In the meantime, the administration is free to resume nationwide expedited removal under the policy the panel upheld.
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