Revealed: How Trump will speed up deportation of criminal illegal aliens
A Reuters exclusive revealed Friday the actions that President Trump is taking to fulfill his promise to deport illegal aliens by speeding up the process for criminal illegals.
According to the report, the Trump administration is temporarily reassigning immigration judges to cities with large populations of illegal aliens. A list of cities named New York, Los Angeles, Miami, New Orleans, San Francisco, Baltimore, Bloomington in Minnesota, El Paso and Harlingen in Texas, Imperial in California, Omaha and Phoenix, Arizona.
Trump has already shifted the focus of deportations from the Obama era, where only illegal aliens with serious criminal offenses were targeted, to include those with any simple criminal charge.
The cities slated to receive more judges have more than half of the 18,013 pending immigration cases that involve undocumented immigrants facing or convicted of criminal charges, according to data provided by the Justice Department’s Executive Office of Immigration Review.
The Justice Department will send immigration judges as soon as Monday to the border to speed up deportations as well, says Reuters.