“This is a national ‘show me your papers’ law.'
—which inhumanely refers to undocumented immigrants as “aliens” throughout—became effective Tuesday. Previously, expedited removals were only allowed to occur within 100 miles of an international border, and only if an undocumented immigrant had been in the U.S. for 14 days or less. The new designation dictates immigrants who have lived in the U.S. for up to two years, residing anywhere within the country, are now eligible for expedited removal.
“This is a national ‘show me your papers’ law,” Royce Murray, a managing director of the American Immigration Council, to the New York Times. “The burden is on the individual to prove that expedited removal does not apply to them. So, if you don’t have the necessary paperwork on you—to show that you have a lease, or that you have status—then you could be taken into custody to try to fight this. And the problem is that this is a fast-tracked process.
“Fully implementing expedited removal will help to alleviate some of the burden and capacity issues currently faced by DHS and DOJ,” McAleenan writes in the notice, “by allowing DHS to remove certain aliens encountered in the interior more quickly, as opposed to placing those aliens in more time-consuming removal proceedings.”
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