The memo instructs ICE employees on how to deport people to countries other than their country of origin, in some cases in as little as six hours.

While the Trump administration has already been sending some migrants to El Salvador, South Africa, and South Sudan, the new memo changes the administrative procedure for the deportations

The Trump administration is aiming to make illegal migrants ineligible for bond hearings as they contest their deportation cases in

The policy shift will apply to all immigrants who crossed the U.S.-Mexico border illegally, no matter when they did so.

Trump's ICE memo ends bond hearings, requiring migrants to remain detained throughout deportation proceedings. Follow Newsweek's live blog.

Civil rights groups sued the Trump administration on Wednesday in a bid to stop the government’s policy of allowing Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers to arrest undocumented migrants who show up for immigration hearings at courthouses.

A group immigrants and legal advocates filed a class-action lawsuit Wednesday that seeks to stop Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers from arresting migrants who appear at immigration courts for previously scheduled hearings and placing them on a fast-track to deportation.