A federal judge on Friday temporarily blocked the Trump administration from swiftly deporting illegal migrants from the interior of the US.

Washington, DC-based District Judge Jia Cobb , an appointee of former President Joe Biden, argued that “prioritizing speed over all else will inevitably lead the Government to erroneously remove people.”

The Trump administration had sought to expand the scope of the expedited removal process – typically used to fast-track deportations for migrants apprehended within 14 days of entering the country and caught within 100 miles of a US land border – to use on migrants “anywhere in the United States” and in the county illegally for “less than two years.”

U.S. District Judge Jia Cobb blocked the Trump administration from expanding the expedited remo

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