Plaintiffs Drop Challenge to DOJ Deportation Policy for Somalis

A Minnesota law firm and legal services provider filed to dismiss their lawsuit over an alleged fast-tracked deportation policy targeting Somali immigrants.

The plaintiffs claimed that the Department of Justice unlawfully put non-detained Somali nationals in accelerated immigration court proceedings that undermined their ability to secure relief from deportation.

That fast-track policy was adopted as the Trump administration pursued a major immigration enforcement operation in Minnesota directed in part at the Somali community there and axed temporary humanitarian protections for people from the country.

A federal judge in Washington, DC declined to halt the policy earlier this month, finding that ...