San Antonio, US (EFE).- United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement director Todd Lyons said Wednesday that he wants to streamline the deportation process in the same way Amazon efficiently delivers packages across the US.
“We need to get better at treating this like a business,” Lyons said at the Border Security Expo in Phoenix, Arizona. The acting ICE director explained that he wants to see a deportation process “like ‘Amazon’ Prime, but with human beings.”
Lyons emphasized the need to fast-track the removal of migrants from the country, according to local media outlet Arizona Mirror.
His remarks come amid legal scrutiny of the President Donald Trump istration’s immigration policies, which include a pledge to carry out the largest deportation campaign in US history.
Courts are currently reviewing cases involving the detention of migrants who have no criminal records or who hold some form of legal status.
One of the istration’s most controversial moves is the transfer of more than 200 people—mostly Venezuelan migrants with no criminal background—to a mega-prison in El Salvador, CBS News reported.
The Trump istration has invoked an 18th-century law, the Alien Enemies Act, to justify the mass deportations.
The controversial use of the law, enacted in 1798 and last used during World War II to intern Japanese Americans, has drawn swift legal challenges from several human rights organizations.
On Wednesday, the Supreme Court lifted a federal order that had blocked deportations of Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador.
The ruling allows the istration to continue using the law for now, specifically to deport individuals alleged to have gang affiliations.
However, it also requires that detainees be informed of their deportation status and given a fair opportunity to challenge it.
Also speaking at the conference, Trump’s so-called “border czar,” Tom Homan, defended the increasing use of the Alien Enemies Act.
“That is a law enacted by Congress, and we are using that,” Homan said, adding that it “bothers him” when judges or politicians attempt to prevent its application. EFE
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