POLITICO • 11th March 2025

How hard will Trump's immigration raids hit red states?

Behind the bleary eyes of workers streaming in and out of a dairy farm dormitory here in Kristi Noem’s state is a story of a booming industry, a broken immigration system and the tension facing the Trump administration as it attempts to forcibly remove 12 million undocumented immigrants.

POLITICO • 25th February 2025

SCOOP: Trump allies circulate mass deportation plan calling for ‘processing camps’ and a private citizen ‘army’

A group of prominent military contractors, including former Blackwater CEO Erik Prince, has pitched the Trump White House on a proposal to carry out mass deportations through a network of “processing camps” on military bases, a private fleet of 100 planes, and a “small army” of private citizens empowered to make arrests.

POLITICO • 4th February 2025

Mass deportations haven’t arrived but Trump’s PR blitz has

President Donald Trump’s mass deportation plan he promised during the campaign has not yet taken hold — but you wouldn’t know that from the White House PR campaign.

POLITICO • 23rd January 2025

Trump’s early actions overwhelm the immigration system

“They had stuff ready to go, and they had their ducks lined up better,” said Mark Krikorian, executive director for the Center for Immigration Studies, a think tank that pushes for less immigration. “In the long run for them, it’s better that they lost in 2020 because they’re not only way more prepared, but the political situation is far more conducive to getting stuff done.”...

POLITICO • 17th January 2025

Trump's planning a flood of immigration executive orders on Day 1

President-elect Donald Trump is eager to use week one to show his supporters he is making good on his signature issue: immigration.

POLITICO • 14th December 2024

Trump’s plan to end birthright citizenship could be decided by the Supreme Court

Donald Trump’s team is crafting an executive order to end birthright citizenship for the children of undocumented immigrants, a monumental move the president-elect’s allies say is a key step in their long-term strategy: getting the issue before the Supreme Court.

POLITICO • 3rd November 2024

‘I Think It Will Happen Again if Trump Is the President’: The Ongoing Trauma of Family Separation

While they’re no longer on front-page headlines, even families who have been reunited — like Teodoro and Angelina — have emerged from the experience with invisible scars.

POLITICO • 12th October 2024

We watched 20 Trump rallies. His racist, anti-immigrant messaging is getting darker.

Trump has demonized minority groups and used increasingly dark, graphic imagery to talk about migrants in every one of his speeches since the Sept. 10 presidential debate, according to a POLITICO review of more than 20 campaign events.

POLITICO • 2nd November 2023

SCOOP: Biden weighs border deal — altering asylum law for Ukraine aid

Top Biden officials are preparing Democratic lawmakers and immigration policy advocates for the likelihood the administration will have to swallow compromises on asylum law in order for the president’s national security funding request to pass.

POLITICO • 10th February 2023

SCOOP: Biden Cabinet member lawyers up as GOP threatens impeachment

The Department of Homeland Security has hired impeachment attorneys as the new House GOP majority moves to boot Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas over his handling of the southern border, according to three DHS officials familiar with the agreement.