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The Rush To Limit Judicial Review, Jill Family
The Rush To Limit Judicial Review, Jill Family
Jill E. Family
Rules Are Made To Be Broken: How The Process Of Expedited Removal Fails Asylum Seekers, Michele Pistone, John Hoeffner
Rules Are Made To Be Broken: How The Process Of Expedited Removal Fails Asylum Seekers, Michele Pistone, John Hoeffner
Michele R. Pistone
Immigration inspectors are authorized to deport persons who arrive at U.S. ports without valid travel documents. This process, which usually occurs within 48 hours and does not allow for judicial review, is called expedited removal. This article begins by summarizing the findings of the few studies allowed access to the process. The authors extrapolate from the studies to demonstrate that thousands of genuine asylum seekers have erroneously been deported via expedited removal. The greatest cause of erroneous deportation is a failure by the agency responsible for the process, Customs and Border Protection (CBP), to follow its own rules. The heart …