Trump’s Immigration Crackdown Is Likely to Bring a Flood of Lawsuits
- ACLU says it will sue if immigrants denied due process rights
- Homeland Security pushes to take off ICE agents’ ‘handcuffs’
An Explanation of the U.S. Deportation Process
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President Donald Trump’s plan to round up and deport millions of undocumented immigrants is likely to trigger waves of lawsuits that may soon dwarf the legal fight over the administration’s temporary ban on travelers from seven Muslim majority countries.
The Department of Homeland Security is pushing ahead with what the American Civil Liberties Union calls a “hyper-aggressive mass deportation policy.” The crackdown mandated by the president’s Jan. 25 executive order includes hiring thousands more border patrol and immigration agents and building a wall along the Mexican border.