Advocacy groups file suit

Immigrant advocacy groups representing migrant children sued the Trump administration Thursday night, alleging a cruel and unlawful scheme to fast-track asylum cases into a deportation assembly line.

“A system that moves faster and that is by design made so that children are unable to access lawyers and are railroaded into deportation orders is not justice.”

How the system is being rushed

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has reduced notice times for asylum interviews to less than twenty four hours in some cases. Immigration judges are refusing continuances longer than three weeks.

Deadline for all removals set

The Department of Justice instructed immigration judges to complete all removal proceedings for detained unaccompanied children by January thirty first, twenty twenty seven.

Coordinated government operation

Jason Boyd, vice president for federal policy at Kids in Need of Defense, said the push is a coordinated whole of government operation that abandons due process and child safety.

“This push isn't coming from just one agency. It's a coordinated whole-of-government operation that abandons due process and child safety in service of faster removals.”

Government attorneys represent children

The federal government assembled a team of government attorneys to represent migrant children in court after cutting ties with advocacy groups. Advocates argue the government seeking deportation should not represent the minors.

Self deportation incentive increased

The Department of Homeland Security announced it was offering unaccompanied migrant children three thousand dollars to self deport, a five hundred dollar increase over last year's incentive.