ICE Detains After Cases Closed

As part of a new nationwide effort to expedite deportations, immigration and customs enforcement officials arrested 11 individuals following their court appearances at the San Diego Immigration Court last Thursday.  Attorneys for the U.S. government, who also work for ICE, asked immigration judges to close cases of some individuals who had been in the country for less than two years and who had appeared without legal representation starting Tuesday, May 20, in courts such as those in Santa Ana and Las Vegas.  A closed immigration court case typically indicates that the government has given up on deporting a person.  In order to arrest those individuals and place them in expedited processes that do not need a judge, ICE personnel instead waited outside courtrooms. News organizations have been informed by ICE that it is holding individuals who are under a fast-track deportation authority. In expedited removal, the deportation order is issued by an immigration officer rather than a judge.  President Donald Trump ordered officers to apply the procedure to anyone who has been in the country for less than two years in an executive order released in January.
 

Source: Fast Company