Trump Admin Live updates: The judge limits the expansion of Trump Admin accelerated moving.
A federal judge has blocked the expanded use of Trump administration of accelerated elimination, which deals with an important, possibly temporary blow, to the president’s deportation agenda.
The American district judge Jia Cobb in Washington, DC, ruled the dependence of the Trump administration in the process issued to detain immigrants in the interior of the country with little or no due process is illegal.
The elimination issued is a simplified process that allows the government to quickly eliminate a migrant from the country. According to the Biden administration, its use was generally restricted to apply to migrants who had recently crossed the country and were found near the southern border.
A man is arrested by federal agents after leaving a judicial hearing at the Immigration Court in the Federal Building Jacob K. Javitz on August 26, 2025 in New York City.
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According to President Donald Trump, the Department of National Security has received a greater discretion to detain migrants anywhere in the interior of the country and place them in elimination procedures if they cannot prove that they have been in the country for more than two years. Through this process, migrants sometimes did not have the opportunity to see a judge.
Accelerated elimination has been used prominently in the courts throughout the country where migrants have been arrested outside the judicial hearings after immigration judges dismiss their cases.
Although Cobb’s decision does not prevent court arrests, it severely reduces the administration’s ability to directly place immigrants in accelerated elimination if their cases are dismissed.
In a strongly written opinion, Cobb said that the legal arguments of the Trump administration of due process affect non -citizens and citizens equally.
“The government could accuse him of entering illegally, relegating him to a basic process that proceeded where he would ‘demonstrate’ his illegal entry, and immediately eliminate it,” he wrote. “Simply accuse him of entering illegally, the government would deprive him of any significant opportunity to refute his accusations. Fortunately, that is not the law.”
Cobb said he is not questioning the constitutionality of the accelerated elimination process, but ordered that anyone subject to him be granted due process.
-ABC News’ Armando García
