Overview
- The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit declined to stay a district court injunction, leaving the expansion blocked for now.
- The administration moved in January to apply fast-track deportations across the country to noncitizens unable to prove two years of U.S. presence.
- Expedited removal has for nearly three decades been used primarily for people apprehended at the border.
- The appeals court scheduled arguments on the government’s appeal for December 9 in Washington.
- In a separate September action, a judge temporarily halted the planned return of hundreds of unaccompanied Guatemalan children.