Court foils Trump’s removal of migrants

Bloomberg

The White House denounced a federal judge’s decision to halt President Donald Trump’s administration from expediting deportations of people who entered the US illegally.
“Once again, a single district judge has suspended application of Federal law nationwide — removing whole classes of illegal aliens from legal accountability,” the White House said in a statement.
US District Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, in a ruling in Washington, halted the enforcement of a policy that widened the “expedited removal” programme.
Before the policy was announced in July, only migrants caught within 100 miles of the border who illegally had entered within two weeks were allowed to be deported.
In granting a halt to the tougher rules, Jackson argued there’s a risk that they would subject some people to “speedy and erroneous deportation, given the scale of the expansion of expedited removal from its previous scope.”
Hours earlier, the administration’s attempt to end a
22-year-old agreement that limits how long migrant children can be held in detention was stymied when a federal judge in Los Angeles denied the government’s request.