A federal judge on Friday blocked a Trump administration effort that aims to speed deportations of migrants detained in the interior of the United States, slamming it as a violation of due process.

Unlike migrants detained at or near the border, who have previously been subject to expedited removal, the people the administration are now targeting have “long since entered” the country, wrote US District Court Judge Jia Cobb.

“That means that they have a weighty liberty interest in remaining here and therefore must be afforded due process under the Fifth Amendment,” said Cobb, who was nominated to the federal bench in Washington, DC, by former President Joe Biden.

The push to accelerate deportations was put into effect in the early days of President Donald Trump’s second term, expanding

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