From 'self-deportation' to the Alien Enemies Act: a guide to all of Trump's new deportation tactics -- and the real people affected by them

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

69% : "Trump is president now.
64% : " What's changed under Trump: CBP One, an earlier version of CBP Home, debuted during Trump's first term; back then, it mainly helped visitors extend their short-term visas.
57% : " What's changed under Trump: About 13 million noncitizens currently have permanent legal status (i.e., possess a green card).
53% : What's changed under Trump: Self-deportation isn't new; Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney first popularized the idea in 2012.
52% : " Since then, however, Trump seems to have changed his mind.
52% : "Imagine how people who entered through that process feel when they're hearing through their different community chats, rumors or screenshots that some friends have received notice and others didn't." What's changed under Trump: During the 2023-24 school year, there were more than 1.1 million international students in the United States, according to a recent report.
51% : "We're going to give them a stipend, we're going to give them some money and a plane ticket, and then we're going to work with them, if they're good, if we want them back in, we're going to work with them to get them back in as quickly as we can," Trump said before the policy was officially announced.
51% : In a statement to the Associated Press, Customs and Border Protection confirmed that it had started to terminate temporary legal status under CBP One.
50% : " Romney's proposal was widely mocked as impractical -- and politically self-defeating.
49% : (TPS shields foreign nationals who already live in the U.S. from being sent back to unsafe countries; under Biden, it had been extended to 2026 for Venezuelans who qualified.)
48% : But Customs and Border Protection officials thought it was suspicious that Pohl and Lepère had only booked accommodations (an Airbnb) for the first two nights of their stay -- and things soon escalated when they admitted they occasionally did "small freelance jobs online" for non-U.S. clients.
47% : During the 2024 campaign, President Trump promised to launch an unprecedented mass deportation effort if reelected -- a push that, he said, could ultimately affect millions of people who entered the United States illegally.
47% : A lawyer ultimately scheduled a court appearance in San Diego on March 13, but a few days before Hernández Romero was supposed to appear, ICE transferred him to South Texas.
44% : What's changed under Trump: The law remains the same -- if you come from a country (mostly in Europe and Asia) whose citizens are allowed to enter the U.S. with a 90-day tourist permit instead of a visa, you're not allowed to work while you're here.
42% : Since returning to the White House in January, Trump has issued a number of orders meant to expand removals.
38% : " What's changed under Trump: Nothing yet.
36% : Trump suspended CBP One for new arrivals his first day back in office, but people already in the U.S. believed they could stay at least until their permits expired.
34% : But Trump has repeatedly signaled his interest in sending U.S. citizens to prisons in other countries -- most recently in conversation with El Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele, who is currently accepting "alien enemies" into a notoriously brutal prison there.
34% : Trump is already engaged in "extrajudicial imprisonment by foreign proxy," as David Bier, an immigration expert at the libertarian Cato Institute, put it to NBC News -- i.e., the deeply unusual practice of deporting accused gang members without due process to a country where they've never lived.
33% : Under Trump, however, federal agents have shifted into maximum enforcement mode in order to fulfill the president's goal of mass deportation -- and they have been "detaining permanent U.S. residents convicted of years-old minor offenses and moving to deport them," according to the New York Times.
32% : "We always have to obey the laws, but we also have homegrown criminals that push people into subways, that hit elderly ladies on the back of the head with a baseball bat when they're not looking, that are absolute monsters," Trump told reporters earlier this month.
31% : What's changed under Trump: Between October 2022 and January 2023 -- as migrants fleeing humanitarian crises surged to the southern border -- then-President Joe Biden created a sponsorship program designed to discourage illegal crossings by providing a legal way to enter the U.S. instead.
30% : At first, the Trump administration acknowledged in a March 31 court filing that it had mistakenly deported Abrego Garcia; now it's justifying Abrego Garcia's removal and insisting that it does not have to comply with various court orders demanding his return to the U.S. In part as a result of such stories, apprehensions on the U.S.-Mexico border -- which were already falling under former President Joe Biden -- have plummeted to their lowest level in decades since Trump took office.
30% : " White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt previously confirmed that Trump is interested in deporting "heinous, violent criminals" who are U.S. citizens to El Salvador "if there's a legal pathway to do that."
29% : " "The Democrats didn't have a policy for dealing with illegal immigrants, but what they did have going for them is they weren't mean-spirited about it," Trump added.
29% : But enforcement of this rule seems to have ramped up dramatically since Trump took office, leading to multiple incidents in which tourists suspected of breaking it have been stopped at U.S. border crossings and detained for weeks before being forced to fly home at their own expense.
25% : Otherwise, "they will be found, they will be deported, and they will never be admitted again to the United States," Trump said, calling self-deportation "the safest option for illegal aliens." In April, the Trump administration added new fines to the equation: $998 per day for overstaying your final order of removal and up to $5,000 for failing to self-deport after saying you would.
22% : But with fewer easy, newly arrived targets, this means Trump is deporting people at a slower pace than Biden was -- which may explain why his administration keeps ratcheting up pressure on agents and catching noncriminals in its crosshairs.
21% : " What's changed under Trump: On March 14, Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, only the fourth time in U.S. history it had be done -- and the first time since World War II.
11% : "He had a crazy policy of self-deportation, which was maniacal," said Trump himself after Romney lost the election.

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