ICE doing family deportations from San Antonio

Washington Times:

The first group of 10 family units was deported from the United States under an expanded "expedited removal" program targeting illegal alien families apprehended in areas along the nation's borders, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents said yesterday.
ICE spokeswoman Nina Pruneda said 120 persons were deported to Honduras aboard a U.S. government airplane, leaving from San Antonio International Airport on Thursday morning and arriving in Honduras that afternoon. She said the agency worked closely with the Honduran consul and other Honduran government officials to organize the return.
Under new Department of Homeland Security policy, family units are now subject to "expedited removal," a process that gives the department the authority to return the illegal aliens to their country of origin as soon as circumstances will allow. The department opened a 500-bed facility in Williamson County, Texas, to house the families.
Homeland Security implemented the program in September between the ports of entry at all nine U.S. Customs and Border Protection Border Patrol sectors on the Southwest border. In January, the department expanded it along the U.S.-Canada border and all U.S. coastal areas.
The removal program permits non-Mexican aliens caught within 100 miles of the border who have spent less than 14 days in the United States to be deported without an immigration hearing.

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It is not clear why those who have been here longer or have managed to make it more than 100 miles into the country are treated differently. ICE is building a first ever family detention center in Taylor, Texas which is much more than 100 miles from the border. Perhaps it is for those who do not qualify for the expedited removal.