DC Circuit Debates ‘Landmines’ in Fast-Tracked Deportation Suit

A Washington federal appeals court wrestled with how—or if—it could block the Trump administration’s expansion of fast-tracked deportations given restrictions on the ability of courts to review immigration decisions.

A three-judge panel for the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit heard arguments on Tuesday in a challenge to a policy allowing immigrants to be deported without a full immigration court hearing if they can’t quickly show they entered the country at least two years ago.

Those proceedings were previously reserved for migrants who entered the US in the prior two weeks and were arrested within 100 miles of ...