A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from fast-tracking the deportation of individuals detained far from the southern border in a blow to President Donald Trump’s mass deportation scheme.

U.S. District Judge Jia M. Cobb ruled on Friday that the administration’s attempts to speed up the deportation process create a “significant risk” that could see immigrants with legal authorization to remain in the U.S. wrongfully affected.

Cobb, a Biden appointee, granted a request from Make the Road New York, an immigrant advocacy group, to pause two policies introduced by Trump in January that made millions more immigrants eligible for deportation under expedited removal.

Historically, expedited removals were primarily used in cases of people arrested within 100 miles of the southern

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