WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions is speeding up the deportation process when foreign nationals get out of prison.
Sessions is giving judges instructions to use an 'order of removal' whenever possible, so criminal immigrants are deported right away when they finish their prison terms.
The Miami Herald says up until now, they were sent to immigrant detention centers, and that the deportation process had such a backlog that it sometimes took years to complete, which also cost a lot of taxpayer money for food and housing.
Sessions' new rules also toughen penalties for illegal border crossings.