They are then put through a procedure called expedited removal, under which many are flown back home within a few weeks.

Now, an immigration officer can exercise that power, called expedited removal, on the spot, a move intended to cut down on fraud.

Of the nearly 182,000 people deported in fiscal year 2000, about 86,000, or 47 percent, were by expedited removal.

First, the statute creates a system of "expedited removal" of people arriving at our borders.

Those sent back under expedited removal are not allowed to return to the United States for five years.

That process is called expedited removal.

This is an administration who opposed expedited removal and unfortunately now embraced it to improve the deportation numbers.

The 1996 law also set up a process called expedited removal.

Yet the Bush administration has expanded expedited removal to include those arriving by sea.

It is more necessary than ever to abolish expedited removal, and return to a system in which deportations can be ordered only by trained judges.