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The White House Fact Sheet is here . The DHS media release is here . Video of President Biden is here , beginning at min. 54:00. Commentary by former BIA Chairman Hon. Paul W. Schmidt is here .

To be published and effective on Monday, Mar. 21, 2022 - Rescission of the Notice of July 23, 2019, Designating Aliens for Expedited Removal "This Notice rescinds the July 23, 2019 Notice, Designating Aliens for Expedited Removal, which expanded...

Hamed Aleaziz, BuzzFeed News, Oct. 14, 2021 "A Trump-era policy that allows ICE officers to arrest and rapidly deport certain undocumented immigrants without access to a judge was suspended by the Biden administration Thursday after BuzzFeed News...

White House, July 27, 2021 "... The Administration is working to improve the expedited removal process at the border to fairly and efficiently determine which individuals have legitimate claims for asylum and other forms of protection. Asylum and...

DHS, July 26, 2021 "Beginning today, certain family units who are not able to be expelled under Title 42 will be placed in expedited removal proceedings.  Expedited removal provides a lawful, more accelerated procedure to remove those family units...

Dr. Yael Schacher, May 13, 2021 "Though he has already revoked some of the former administration’s highly restrictive policies on asylum, President Biden has thus far left in place an expulsion policy first imposed by the Trump administration...

Shaun Courtney, Bloomberg Government, Oct. 6, 2020 "Undocumented immigrants anywhere in the U.S. can be deported as quickly as a day, once Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials complete mandatory training online, the agency says. “This...

Grace v. Barr "Twelve asylum seekers challenge a host of executive-branch policies adopted to implement the expedited-removal provisions of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act (IIRIRA), Pub. L. No. 104-208, 110 Stat...

DHS v. Thuraissigiam "[U]nder our precedents, neither the Suspension Clause nor the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment requires any further review of respondent’s claims, and IIRIRA’s limitations on habeas review are constitutional...

USA v. Gonzalez-Fierro "To the extent 8 U.S.C. § 1225(b)(1)(D) strips federal courts of jurisdiction to review the fundamental fairness of an expedited removal proceeding before the Government can use that expedited removal to prove a §...

Make the Road New York v. McAleenan, Sept. 27, 2019 "For the reasons stated in the accompanying Memorandum Opinion , it is hereby ORDERED that Plaintiffs’ Motion for a Preliminary Injunction (ECF No. 13) is GRANTED. It is FURTHER ORDERED...

LCR, Sept. 2019 " Civil Rights and Community Groups File Lawsuit Challenging Sweeping Expedited Removal Immigration Policy in Federal Court Lawyers for Civil Rights (LCR) and Ropes and Gray LLP filed a federal lawsuit in the District...

Jeffrey S. Chase, Sept. 14, 2019 "The late Maury Roberts, a legendary immigration lawyer and former BIA Chair, wrote in 1991: “It has always seemed significant to me that, among all the members of the animal kingdom, man is the only one who...

Zuniga v. Barr "This case presents us with a simple question: do noncitizens subject to expedited removal under 8 U.S.C. § 1228 have a statutory right to counsel in reasonable fear proceedings before immigration judges? The answer, based on...

AIC, Aug. 6, 2019 "The American Immigration Council, American Civil Liberties Union, and Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP filed a federal lawsuit today challenging the Trump administration’s new rule that massively expands fast-track deportations...