US Appeals Court Wrestles With DHS Speedy Deportation Directives

Washington’s federal appeals court appeared to wrestle with a legal challenge to Trump administration directives instructing immigration officers to quickly deport certain migrants who entered the country under a Biden-era program.

The three-judge panel for the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit heard argument on Monday in the government’s appeal of a lower court order that blocked directives affecting those who entered the US under the since-terminated humanitarian program.

The directives told immigration agents to consider putting migrants allowed into the country through the prior administration’s program for Cubans, Nicaraguans, Haitians, and Venezuelans into expedited removal, or the ...