Expedited Removal Expansion Act of 2025

The Expedited Removal Expansion Act of 2025 would broaden the use of expedited removal (ER) under the Immigration and Nationality Act. It removes a current restriction that limited ER to certain categories and instead allows the Secretary of Homeland Security to apply ER to any alien who is inadmissible under sections 212(a)(6) or (7). The bill also shifts key authorities from the Attorney General to the Secretary of Homeland Security, raises an evidentiary standard in one provision (changing “a significant possibility” to “clear and convincing evidence”), and makes the Secretary’s decisions to apply ER to these additional aliens unreviewable and subject to modification at any time. Additionally, it reorganizes subparagraphs in the ER framework (removing subparagraph F and renaming subparagraph G to F). In short, the bill would make more arriving or inadmissible noncitizens eligible for fast-track removal without a hearing, while giving DHS broad and unfettered discretion to change or expand those rules at any time.