Thread: California’s AG challenges Trump on fast-track deportations

By Gustavo Solis The San Diego Union-Tribune (TNS) 16 hrs ago

SAN DIEGO — California’s attorney general Monday asked the acting secretary of the Department of Homeland Security to revoke a Trump administration rule that expands fast-track deportations for unauthorized immigrants who cannot prove that they have been in the country for at least two years.

Under these deportations, officially known as expedited removals, people are not given due process protections available in normal deportation cases such as the right to an attorney or a hearing before an immigration judge.

Attorney General Xavier Becerra said the Trump administration’s policy is another attempt “to bully vulnerable immigrant families.”

“The rule allows line-level immigration offices to kick people out of the country on the spot from anywhere in the United States with virtually no oversight or review,” Becerra said in a statement. “It is reckless, dangerous, and risks the deportation of lawful residents and legitimate asylum seekers, who, by law, should be exempt.”

Expedited removal has been around since 1996. In 2004, the federal government applied it exclusively to unauthorized immigrants who had been in the country fewer than 14 days and were within 100 miles of the border.

However, this year, the Trump administration expanded the application of expedited removal to include all unauthorized immigrants who have been in the country less than two years and are detained anywhere in the country.

Becerra, who joined 19 other attorneys general in writing a letter to the Department of Homeland Security to stop the implementation of this policy, believes that there is a high potential for mistakes and unintended consequences.

For instance, Becerra believes that because the Trump administration’s rule lacks clear legal standards, immigration officials may impose inconsistent or unclear burden of proof on people who are detained. Lawful residents, U.S. citizens, asylees, and other people with legal protections could be mistakenly deported, the attorney general said.

Additionally, Becerra says the new rule could result in family separations. For example, mixed-status households — meaning families made up of both lawful and undocumented residents, could be torn apart.

Another concern is that immigrants may be less likely to report crimes or seek medical care out of concern for this new rule.

When the Trump administration announced the new fast-track deportation rule back in July, officials said their aim was to protect national security and reduce the growing backlog of immigration court cases.

“The effect of that change will be to enhance national security and public safety — while reducing government costs — by facilitating prompt immigration determinations,” according to a Department of Homeland Security notice.

The letter regarding the fast-track deportation rule is just the latest example of California’s attorney general challenging the Trump administration’s policies in court.

Last month, Attorney General Becerra called for a preliminary injunction against the expansion of expedited removals. He also joined a coalition of 20 attorneys general in a lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s attempt to eliminate the Flores Settlement Agreement, which provides protections for children in immigration custody.

Earlier this year, Becerra also sued the deferral government over what he described as an illegal diversion of public funds to build a border wall along the southern border.

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Jeez, it's always California (of course New York, Washington or Massachusetts could be on that list, too) that formats the legal challenge. Why not Idaho? Why not Mississippi? Isn't this issue applicable to all states?

A pattern is one of the first giveaways of criminal conspiracies.

"Earlier this year, Becerra also sued the deferral government over what he described as an illegal diversion of public funds to build a border wall along the southern border."


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Where is the Class Action Lawsuit from the citizens of sanctuary cities and states that are illegally "deferring" their local, state, and federal tax dollars...misappropriating those public funds, embezzling those funds, and USING those funds to harbor, aid, and abet illegal aliens?

Rewarding illegal aliens for criminal trespassing into our country, releasing them in our neighborhoods, and giving them the privilege and gifts of drivers licenses, welfare, food stamps, free school, free medical care, free school lunches, free attorneys, HUD housing, reduced sentencing, alerting them to ICE raids, free pre-natal care, free diapers?

Where is an attorney that WILL come forward and get this Class Action Lawsuit filed? We are ready to sign up.


Sanctuary cities and states are not EXEMPT from our Federal Immigration and Visa Laws.

They are not EXEMPT from ANY Federal Laws.

All 50 states are under the Umbrella of our Federal Laws and those laws apply to all of them.

They are not EXEMPT from paying Federal Taxes...will they refuse to pay Federal Taxes now too because they do not "like" that Federal Law?