Federal Appeals Court Delivers MASSIVE Victory for Trump Admin on Deportations

A federal appeals court has just cleared the way for the Trump administration to ramp up fast-track deportations.

In a 2-1 decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit overturned a lower court ruling blocking the DHS from expanding “expedited removal” of illegal immigrants.

In effect, this means that illegal aliens who have been in the United States for less than two years can be deported without first appearing before an immigration judge.

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BREAKING — MASSIVE TRUMP WIN: A US Appeals Court has just allowed the Trump admin to EXPEDITE the removal of illegals from our country

The 2-1 ruling affirms illegals ANYWHERE in the US can be removed WITHOUT seeing an immigration judge if they’d been in the US for less than 2 years before their arrest

This policy used to only be used in the immediate vicinity of the US border. Now, it’ll be implemented nationwide.

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Take a look at the ruling here:

🚨 In a 2-1 vote, the D.C. Circuit has restored the Trump administration's 2025 expansion of expedited removal for noncitizens, allowing the DHS to apply expedited removal nationwide to the full extent Congress authorized. pic.twitter.com/eZuqZ88N9r

— SCOTUS Wire (@scotus_wire) June 23, 2026

This is a giant win for the Trump administration’s efforts to solve the immigration crisis our nation is facing.

Up until this year, the expedited removal process was only used to deport illegal immigrants at the border.

But, the DHS sought to expand that process to illegal aliens apprehended anywhere in the U.S.

This was quickly blocked by a Biden-appointed activist judge after an immigration rights group sued.

Today’s ruling tosses out that lower-court ruling, giving the DHS the go-ahead to largely expedite deportations.

Reuters has more details:

A panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled 2-1 to overturn a decision by a judge who in August 2025 blocked the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s move to expand who qualifies for expedited removal.

That expedited removal process has for nearly three decades been used to quickly return migrants apprehended at the border. But in January 2025, the administration expanded its scope ⁠to cover non-citizens apprehended anywhere in the U.S. who could not show that they had been in the country for two years.

The policy mirrored one the Trump administration adopted in 2019 that the Biden administration later rescinded.
After the immigrant rights advocacy group Make the Road New York sued, U.S. District Judge Jia Cobb blocked the enforcement of those new policies, saying they violate the constitutional due process rights of migrants who could be apprehended anywhere in the U.S.

But the D.C. Circuit disagreed in a ruling authored by U.S. Circuit Judge Justin Walker, a Trump appointee, who said that the Trump administration was allowed to expand “expedited removal to the maximum extent allowed by Congress.”

He said migrants are given notice that DHS is placing them in expedited removal and receive a chance to object, ‌including ⁠by showing that they have been continually present in the U.S. for two years.

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“At most, the district court’s findings show that Congress’s expedited screening system operates quickly and with practical constraints — features the statute itself contemplates,” he wrote. “They do not show that the challenged directives deprive aliens of a meaningful opportunity to be heard.”

The only Obama-appointed judge on the D.C. Circuit dissented.

Per the New York Times:

Judge Justin R. Walker, a Trump appointee, wrote the majority opinion, joined by Judge Neomi Rao, also a Trump appointee. Judge Robert L. Wilkins, an Obama appointee, wrote in a dissent that he would have let the lower court’s ruling stand.

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