WASHINGTON: The Trump administration said it would quickly deport undocumented immigrants who have illegally entered the United States within the past two years.
Officials are calling the new strategy that will allow immigration authorities to quickly remove immigrants from anywhere they encounter them across the United State, authorities said.
The to-be-adopted rule will target the people who sneaked into the United States and do not have an asylum case or immigration-court date pending.
Previously, the administration’s policy for “expedited removal” had been limited to migrants caught within 100 miles of the U.S. border who had been in the country for less than two weeks.
The new rule would apply to immigrants anywhere in the United States who have been in the country for less than two years — adhering to a time limit included in the 1996 federal law that authorized the expedited process.
(Agencies)
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