New Delhi, June 26 -- WASHINGTON - An undocumented worker who has lived in the United States for a year and eight months and cannot quickly produce documentation of that fact now has no automatic right to appear before an immigration judge before the federal government sends them home. A federal appeals court made that the law of the land this week.

The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled 2-1 Tuesday to clear the way for President Donald Trump's expanded use of expedited removal, fast-track deportation without a court hearing, for undocumented immigrants anywhere in the United States. The panel reversed a ruling from U.S. District Judge Jia Cobb, a Biden appointee, who had blocked the policy last Aug...