A district court had placed a stay on the expansion, citing a violation of due process.
A divided panel of the District of Columbia U.S. Court of Appeals vacated a lower court’s stay of the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) expansion of the expedited removal of illegal aliens this week. The lower court had paused the policy on the grounds that the department had violated due process. The appellate panel disagreed.
The circuit court ruling stated that Congress has “provided limited judicial review of the expedited-removal system itself,” and that federal authorities need not provide a hearing to determine how long an immigrant has resided in the country.
Judge Neomi Rao stated in her concurrence, “IIRIRA [Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996] commits expedited removal policies to the Secretary’s discretion and insulates that discretion from judicial review.”
As the Lord Leads, Pray with Us…
- For judges on the federal bench as they hear cases and interpret federal laws and the Constitution.
- For Secretary Mullin as he heads the Department of Homeland Security and oversees federal immigration enforcement.
- For Supreme Court justices as they prepare to issue the final rulings of the current term.
Sources: NBC News, MSN, Newsmax
