An appeals court has ruled against the Trump administration in a case over the legality of a fast-track deportation process called expedited removal.
Expedited removal has been used for over two decades at the border, and it’s only applicable to people who’ve been in the U.S. for less than two years.
But, as Reuters reports, the Trump administration is attempting to expand the process this year to allow it to be used on migrants who live far from the border.
A lower court ruling sided with an advocacy group earlier this year that filed suit against the policy’s expansion — arguing it cut away at due process rights for immigrants and prevented people from seeing a judge ahead of being removed.
In a 2-1 ruling over the weekend, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled to uphold that order and continue the block.
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In a weeklong series, KJZZ looks at Arizona’s connection to the Japanese internment policies that were instituted following Pearl Harbor, and how it ties into the broader story of racialized public policy. Gabriel Pietrorazio joined The Show for a closer look at the series. -
That includes more than 11,000 non-Mexican deportees, according to Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum. -
The Pinal County Attorney’s Office announced this week that it’s joining certain violent-crime task forces led by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The same deal with the Phoenix Police Department was canceled more than a decade ago. -
Officials at the Department of Homeland Security have accused Arizona Congresswoman Adelita Grijalva of “faking outrage” over her protest at an ICE raid west of downtown Tucson last week. -
Long before World War II, the U.S. Army rounded up Native Americans onto reservations — drawing in their new boundaries. And in Arizona, the federal government once again looked to those lands for another minority population — Japanese Americans — also forcibly rounded up by the military after the Pearl Harbor bombing in 1941.
