The border line between Mexico and the U.S in the community of Sasabe in Sonora state, Mexico, on Jan. 13, 2017. Phot by Alfredo Estrella / AFP - Getty Images
June 23 (Reuters) – A federal appeals court cleared the way on Tuesday for the Trump administration to expand a fast-track deportation process that would allow for the expedited removal of migrants who are living far from the border.
A panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled 2-1 to overturn a decision by a judge who, in August 2025, blocked the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s move to expand who qualifies for expedited removal.
That expedited removal process has for nearly three decades been used to quickly return migrants apprehended at the border. But in January 2025, the administration expanded its scope to cover non-citizens apprehended anywhere in the U.S. who could not show that they had been in the country for two years.
The policy mirrored one the Trump administration adopted in 2019 that the Biden administration later rescinded.
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