This weekend, a federal appeals court refused to allow the Trump administration to expand their fast-track deportation process, which would expedite the removals of immigrants living far from the border, reports Nate Raymond of Reuters. 

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit affirmed a lower court’s ruling that the administration’s actions went against individuals' rights to due process. The judges cited "serious risks of erroneous summary removal." 

Elsewhere, alongside emotional impacts, there is a steep monetary cost to widespread detention and deportation, report Rachel Adams-Heard and Elena Mejía of Bloomberg News. 

The U.S. government cites an average cost per deportation of $17,121. Looking (with helpful visuals) at the case of Ventura Rubio, a Florida grandfather who was detained for 128 days in six Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities across the U.S., Adams-Heard and Mejía estimate that his deportation cost close to $26,000. 

"This is a nationwide cost being imposed on all taxpayers, and it’s coming at the expense of other priorities that Americans care about," said David Bier, director of immigration studies at the Cato Institute. And as Jennie said, "The typical taxpayer does not understand how expensive this is, how inefficient this is and also how inhumane it is." 

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