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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Bloomberg Law Podcast. I'm June Grosso. Every

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Speaker 1: day we bring you insight and analysis into the most

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Speaker 1: and on Bloomberg dot com slash podcasts. Did the Trump

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Speaker 1: administration craft it's new policy for expedited removal of undocumented

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Speaker 1: miners using AWGI board? That's what a DC federal judge

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Speaker 1: asked government lawyers during a hearing over whether she should

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Speaker 1: block the new measure joining us as Rick, Suprofessor of

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Speaker 1: So Rick, these new procedures were announced without notice or

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Speaker 1: public comment back in July, but they haven't been enforced yet.

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Speaker 1: What are the basics? So essentially, what it does is

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Speaker 1: expand something called expedited removal and expedity removal of the

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Speaker 1: process by which a immigrant can be removed from the

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Speaker 1: country essentially without ever seeing an immigration judge. It makes

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Speaker 1: the process very fast. A low level immigration officer can

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Speaker 1: make the determination all themselves and actually can expodite the removal.

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Speaker 1: It can happen within a day, so it greatly speeds

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Speaker 1: up the process and raises the risk for error. You

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Speaker 1: have a mid level immigration officer making the decision, you

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Speaker 1: have no hearing. Are their due process concerns? Is that

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Speaker 1: what the immigration advocates were complaining about. Yeah, there's two

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Speaker 1: concerns at play. One is due process, which is sort

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Speaker 1: of important in this particular case because actually the particular

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Speaker 1: provision that the Trump administration wants to do, which is,

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Speaker 1: anyone in the country that can't show that they've been

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Speaker 1: in the country for two years and anywhere in the

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Speaker 1: country would be subject to this. And this raises constitution

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Speaker 1: concerns because constitution applies to everyone that's within the United States.

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Speaker 1: But the second concern, which is what you raise in

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Speaker 1: the lead, has to do with how this particular regulation

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Speaker 1: was put into place and essentially without notice and comment

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Speaker 1: and without a lot of good explanation for why the

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Speaker 1: administration needs it. The judge seemed to be concerned that

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Speaker 1: this just may violate how an agency on or the

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Speaker 1: president puts out policies and procedures. Did the judge give

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Speaker 1: anything away about her ruling when she told the government

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Speaker 1: lawyers that, however, the government had arrived at the rule

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Speaker 1: even if by dart board or Wigi board. It wasn't

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Speaker 1: allowed to implement the policy without warning. Yeah, so there

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Speaker 1: seems to be two things at play, especially the comments

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Speaker 1: about the wigi board and the dart board. This echoes

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Speaker 1: some of the other litigation which regards executive orders have

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Speaker 1: been put out really fast. Judges have expressed concerns that

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Speaker 1: they haven't been exactly thought out. There hasn't been a

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Speaker 1: good explanations given. And although there's a lot of discretion

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Speaker 1: context of serving the particular task as opposed to just

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Speaker 1: sort of reckless or sort of willful, you know, sort

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Speaker 1: of decision that they're making on the fly. So this

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Speaker 1: seems to be echoing some of that here, and it

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Speaker 1: could be that is how how the judge is going

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Speaker 1: to decide the other aspects with regard to giving notice.

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Speaker 1: This really applies to a lot of policy has been

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Speaker 1: put into place and being kind of hidden. The separation

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Speaker 1: of children have been going on for months before the

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Speaker 1: administration even knowledge that I was happy, and there seems

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Speaker 1: to be concerned that administration might try that again. What

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Speaker 1: was the basic argument from the Justice Department lawyers about

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Speaker 1: this rule and why they felt it was valid. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: so they certainly defended on the merits by saying that

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Speaker 1: the attorney General in this case, the secretary to helmelet security,

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Speaker 1: has a discretion to sort of just implement these rules

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Speaker 1: without notice and comment. But there was also the strange

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Speaker 1: argument that we're making that they can't really challenge the

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Speaker 1: regulation until they start enforcing it, but wouldn't tell the

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Speaker 1: when expedity removal actually happens. Because it happened so fast,

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Speaker 1: it may be that when it does happen, those people

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Speaker 1: Let's talk about how this would play out on on

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Speaker 1: that might be difficult to prove. Yeah, this is really

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Speaker 1: carry with us in our wallet. And essentially what this

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Speaker 1: does is puts the burden on whoever an immigration official

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Speaker 1: So I think it does raise a lot of concerns

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Speaker 1: to review what these individual officers are going to decide.

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Speaker 1: In fact, they're saying that they are completely nonreviewable once

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Speaker 1: all the immigration lawsuits, and last week they are actually

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Speaker 1: two advocacy groups filed a federal lawsuit challenging legitimacy of

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Speaker 1: the acting US Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Ken Cucinelli

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Speaker 1: substance of that asylum directive. And again it's part of

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Speaker 1: the broader sort of effort by the Trump administration to

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Speaker 1: foreclosed opportunities for individuals to claim essentially they're legal right

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Speaker 1: under the law, but by using the process and speeding

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Speaker 1: this one saying that they wouldn't be able to apply

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Speaker 1: for asylum there, that they wouldn't be applied at all. Essentially,

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Speaker 1: they seemed to be going towards a procedural way of

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Speaker 1: claims or getting Congress to change the laws. Rick. There

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Speaker 1: have been a lot of attempts by the Trump administration

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Speaker 1: to speed up deportations. Are they working, Actually, it's hard

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Speaker 1: to tell. I mean, in some ways, even before the

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Speaker 1: certainly since the Obama administration. So it's hard to know

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Speaker 1: what the natural baseline is and whether these policies have

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Speaker 1: they not been put into place. But the speeding up

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Speaker 1: I think that's also what's annoying a lot of the courts.

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Speaker 1: They want to have an opportunity to actually review these things.

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Speaker 1: And I take it that most of these cases are

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Speaker 1: power of the district court to issue these injunctions before

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Speaker 1: Supreme Court. Certainly, the administration wants it to go all

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Speaker 1: But the concern is if you go through that entire

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Speaker 1: review process and it takes a year or two years,

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Speaker 1: that means administration may be implementing something against the constitution

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Speaker 1: or the law for that period of time. So nice

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Speaker 1: to have you on again, Rick, Thanks so much. That's

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Speaker 1: Rick Suey's a professor of law at the University of

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Speaker 1: North Carolina School of Law. Thanks for listening to the

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