Expedited Removal is not the “only viable alternative”

Jeffrey S. Chase, a New York City immigration lawyer and former Immigration Judge, argues against expedited removal in his post, “Expedited Removal is Not the Answer to the Backlog”:

“If the criminal court system were to be flooded to the breaking point, the solution could not be to let supervisory police officers decide which defendants might have a reasonable enough chance of being found innocent and get to go to court, and just find the rest guilty without the right to a trial.  However, that is pretty much the premise of expedited removal.  An overwhelming volume of cases cannot be used to justify the stripping away of due process protections.”

You can find more blog posts on a variety of immigration law issues at https://www.jeffreyschase.com.