A federal appeals court handed President Donald Trump a significant win in his mass deportation efforts with a ruling Tuesday reviving his administration’s move to speed up deportations of undocumented immigrants in the United States.
The ruling from the US DC Circuit Court of Appeals allows the Trump administration to cast a wider net over who’s subject to the fast-track deportation procedure known as “expedited removal,” which allows immigration authorities to remove an individual from the country without a hearing before an immigration judge.
The decision allows the administration to move forward with its plan to quickly deport undocumented immigrants who are residing in the United States and can’t prove they’ve lived in the country continuously for two years or more.
A trial court had previously blocked the administration’s January 21, 2025, maneuver to expand the policy beyond just migrants who were apprehended within 100 miles of a land border and within 14 days of arrival.
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