A federal judge on Friday blocked Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s “expedited removal” deportation strategy to detain paroled immigrants as quickly as possible. U.S. District Judge Jia Cobb of the District of Columbia ruled that the Trump administration’s use of expedited removal exceeded the Department of Homeland Security’s legal authority,

A federal judge on Friday blocked the Trump administration from fast-tracking the deportation of potentially hundreds of thousands of immigrants who were paroled into the United States under Biden-era humanitarian programs.

ICE recently received billions more in funding from Congress as the Trump administration seeks to ramp up its deportation drive.

ICE's recruitment of 10,000 new officers stems from more than $46 billion in President Trump's "big, beautiful bill."