Immigrant rights groups are asking a federal judge in Washington, DC, to provide “emergency relief” and prohibit Trump administration from increasing their use of accelerated elimination.
The motion, presented on Tuesday, is part of a continuous demand that defies the expansion of the administration process that allows the government to quickly expel migrants sometimes without going before a judge.
The presentation has taken a renewed sense of urgency for the groups. In recent weeks, there has been a dramatic increase in arrests in court after the DHS moves to dismiss cases against migrants in the elimination procedures.
“Without anticipated notice to non -citizens, the defendants are moving to [immigration judges] to dismiss people elimination procedures; arrest and detain people who have appeared for their judicial hearings as indicated; and place them in accelerated elimination procedures, thus refusing any significant opportunity to be heard before eliminating them quickly, “the groups wrote.
The presentation added: “This new aggressive implementation of the rule and orientation has sown fear in immigrant communities, since non -citizens who have been fulfilling their legal obligations now face the risk of arrest and summary deportation in their upcoming judicial dates.”
The groups accuse ICE officers of coordinating with the lawyers of the Department of National Security and “parking in the immigration courts” to “ambush the non -citizens” after their cases are dismissed.
A Dominican man, on the left and an activist, on the right, are arrested by simple clothing officers with immigration and customs application after an immigration audience in the Federal Building Jacob K. Javitz in New York, June 6, 2025.
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Even those who have pending asylum requests and other relief requests are being attacked for accelerated elimination, the groups say.
They affirm that those who have been arrested include “man whose partner had 8 months pregnant and had requested asylum, a gay couple who feared the persecution, the asylum applicant married to an American and 19 -year -old citizen who seems eligible for a special youth state of special immigrants.”
The groups are asking the judge to stop accelerated removals while the judicial battle continues.
A DHS main spokesman previously defended the arrests of the court in a statement to ABC News, saying: “The majority of foreigners who entered the United States illegally in the last two years are subject to issued remoctions. Biden ignored this legal fact and chose to release millions elimination, as they should always have been.”
The declaration added to migrants: “If they have a valid credible fear claim, they will continue in immigration procedures, but if no valid claim is found, aliens will be subject to rapid deportation.”
