Judge Blocks Trump Admin’s Expansion of Fast-Track Deportations

The Department of Homeland Security criticized the ruling as judicial overreach undermining the president’s constitutional authority to control immigration.

Agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detain an illegal immigrant after a court hearing at the Connecticut Superior Court in Stamford, Conn., on July 3, 2025. John Moore/Getty Images

A federal judge has halted the Trump administration’s attempt to expand fast-track deportations across the United States, ruling that the policy violated illegal immigrants’ constitutional rights to due process.

In an Aug. 29 decision, U.S. District Judge Jia Cobb temporarily blocked the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) January order authorizing “expedited removal” for illegal immigrants arrested anywhere in the country who cannot prove two years of continuous residence.