The judge took the deportation country to El Salvador when the case was decided. A mother of two American citizens was sent to Honduras without talking to anyone other than immigration officials. College students were suddenly arrested on city streets and taken to a detention center hundreds of miles away.
The Trump administration’s commitment to launch the largest deportation campaign in U.S. history has a unique and powerful mark: speed. Officials have quickly conducted deportation procedures so that some people are removed without talking to lawyers, family members or without a court hearing at all.
Trump's immigration efforts violated norms and succumbed to the law as he laid agenda with dazzling enthusiasm in an attempt to show his supporters he provided, even though the number of deportations lagged behind Biden last February.
"The term is a term that runs through all immigration actions of the Trump administration is an attempt to drive people out of the state or court oversight," said Lee Gelernt, an attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union.
Trump’s first effort significantly reshapes the country’s immigration system, often hindered by courts, as surrounding officials or withdrawn in a wave of public criticism. The president was brave during his second term, surrounded by loyalists and governed a country with immigrant rights.
"This is stronger than the first time I have a strong presidency," Trump told the Atlantic in April. "I'm fighting for survival for the first time, and I've been fighting for this country. This time I'm fighting to help the world and help the country."
Even if Trump publicly slams individual judges, he and his aides stress that they will comply with the court ruling. Still, government officials are testing the line.
"I can't - I can't try everybody who is illegally tried - a major trial," Trump said in an interview with ABC this week.
In March, after Trump signed an executive order, the alien enemy law, which was cited (a wartime force rarely used) to expel people allegedly members of the Venezuelan gang, a federal judge who ordered the deportation to be deported at an emergency hearing.
But, anyway, two people were deported and deported to prisons in El Salvador, where there is a history of human rights violations. After that, U.S. District Court Judge James Boasberg proposed that deportation appears to be a purpose of "beyond" the judicial system.
A federal judge ruled Thursday that Trump cannot rely on the law to detain and remove immigrants.
White House officials argued that voters chose the agenda. Americans have always regarded immigration reform as a top priority. According to SurveyMonkey's support, his presidency is over 100 days, the problem still resonates, but adults are divided, with 49% approving him for handling border security and immigration, and 51% disagreeing.
Although competitive policies that allow immigrants to stay in the United States have been revoked, there is still a backlog of immigrant cases, and although competitive age policies have been revoked, asylum seekers must wait for their case at the border again.
Trump’s team is seeking a quick deportation case, so they won’t be stuck with legal quarrels this time.
"You won't be sympathetic to this administration or President Trump," Stephen Miller, deputy chief of staff and arbitrator of immigration policy, said Thursday.
Muzaffar Chishti, director of the Institute for Immigration Policy at the New York University School of Law, said the government believes that due process is not required for immigrants during arrest and deportation procedures, with little use of provisions, including the Foreign Enemies Act of 1789.
Over time, the minimum requirement for proper proceedings defined by a judge is “You know the fees to be charged, you have the ability to file a case with the allegation, and you have the right to have a lawyer,” he said.
By this definition, Chishti said he suspected due process “at the speed at which they performed these deportations.”
Trump's border tsar Tom Homan admitted in an interview with NBC News in January that the government's massive deportation plan would include "collateral arrests" - immigrants with no criminal record, found to be immigrants who are targeted by immigrants and customs law enforcement officers.
Homan said it is still a priority for those with criminal records, but anyone in the United States should see themselves as a target. However, some recent cases involve undocumented immigrants arrested during routine check-in with immigration officials, which significantly escalates deportation efforts.
According to the Department of Homeland Security, immigration officials arrested 151,000 undocumented immigrants, far more than the Biden administration did the same period last year.
However, overall deportation lags behind Biden’s administration’s deportation in the same period last year.
Trump officials said this was due to a sharp drop in crossings. But they want to keep the pressure in other ways - through arrogant and high-profile arrests.
Unlike his first term, Trump withdrew from a “zero tolerance policy” after widespread condemnation, which separates families seeking asylum across the border and does not back down even when some efforts spark criticism.
The government has revoked more than 300 student visas; in some cases college students have been caught by masked immigration agents and held in detention centers, sometimes a thousand miles from their homes, with few warnings and often few details about why they were detained.
Three U.S. citizens from the country were removed from office along with their mothers in Louisiana last week in amid public outcry. One of them is a 4-year-old child with stage 4 cancer who is receiving treatment in the United States
Homan said Monday that officials sent the children as the mother asked them to set out with them. "It's the decision of parents. Parents 101. The mother made the choice," he said.
However, Sirine Shebaya, executive director of the National Immigration Program, has been helping the case, insisting that the mother has no choice but to evacuate the child from the United States and has no other choice. They were not told, “There are people outside saying they are going to take their kids with them.”
A woman who went out with her 2-year-old American citizen daughter is pregnant. The lawyer said she made a phone call with her husband in less than two minutes, that immigration and customs enforcement were suddenly cut off, so she could not arrange for her child to stay in the United States, where she had been in the United States for years and had regular check-in with the ICE.
The second one was deported. Her 4-year-old son suffered from stage 4 cancer and her 7-year-old daughter was all citizens. The lawyer said the boy was sent out for his medication and treatment. The woman's lawyer said she did not sign or write anything, nor did she agree to remove the child from the country with her. He said she did not call her a lawyer or family member.
Shebaya usually says that having time to keep people deported is very unusual when the kids get involved.
However, the two women were deported after failing to show an immigration appointment, which allowed their goal to deport faster.
Representing her Immigration and LGBTQ Civil Rights Cooperative, the 2-year-old mother missed the date because she was kidnapped while waiting in Mexico. She was eventually released. Gonzalez said the second woman was an unaccompanied minor at the age of 13 and claimed she had asylum at the border but was not notified of the hearing.
The government is also strengthening calls for undocumented immigrants to leave voluntarily or may be permanently banned if immigration authorities find them first.
Tricia McLaughlin, a spokesman for the Department of Homeland Security, said the government has illegally given American parents “a chance to control their departure process and have the potential to return to the law, the right way and re-enact the American dream.”
Linda Rivas, an immigration attorney in El Paso, Texas, summed up the second year agenda in this way: "The law feels like a suggestion. Families and communities are scared of what is about to happen."