Trump administration to radically expand 'Expedited removal' of immigrants, extrajudicial detention to increase

The change is expected to be a massive expansion of the government's power to seize, detain, and abruptly deport.

Previously, expedited removal was limited to undocumented immigrants caught within 100 miles of the U.S. border who had been in the U.S. for less than two weeks.

The Trump administration's extrajudicial 'Expedited Removal' of undocumented immigrants will be radically expanded to apply everywhere within the United States, not just within 100 miles of the Mexico border, after the new rule is published in the Federal Register on Tuesday.

On Tuesday, the Trump administration is expected to radically expand its power to rapidly deport undocumented immigrants who entered the United States within the past two years, using the 'Expedited Removal' fast-track deportation process which removes the involvement of any immigration judges.

From the Washington Post's ICE beat reporter Maria Sacchetti:

Officials are calling the new strategy, which will take effect immediately, a necessary response to the influx of Central Americans and others at the southern border. It will allow immigration authorities to quickly remove immigrants from anywhere they encounter them across the United States, and they expect the approach will help alleviate the nations immigration-court backlog and free up space in Immigration and Customs Enforcement jails.

The stated targets of the change are people who sneaked into the United States and do not have an asylum case or immigration-court date pending. Previously, the administrations policy for expedited removal had been limited to migrants caught within 100 miles of the U.S.