Sweeping Raids, Giant Camps and Mass Deportations: Inside Trump's 2025 Immigration Plans

"Miller said Trump would try again to end DACA."

"DACA is an Obama-era program that shields from deportation and grants work permits to people who were brought unlawfully to the United States as children."

""Trump and his aides have not yet said whether they would reenact one of the most contentious deterrents to unauthorized immigration that he pursued as president: separating children from their parents, which led to trauma among migrants and difficulties in reuniting families."

"It remains unclear whether the Supreme Court will rule that it is constitutional to use the law against people who have been living for a significant period in the United States and express fear of persecution if sent home."

"While such arrangements have traditionally only covered migrants who had previously passed through a third country, federal law does not require that limit, and a second Trump administration would seek to make those deals without it, in part as a deterrent to migrants making what the Trump team views as illegitimate asylum claims."

"While a law known as the Posse Comitatus Act generally forbids the use of the armed forces for law enforcement purposes, another law called the Insurrection Act creates an exception."

"While a law known as the Posse Comitatus Act generally forbids the use of the armed forces for law enforcement purposes, another law called the Insurrection Act creates an exception."

"Miller said the Trump team would try again.To increase the number of agents available for ICE sweeps, Miller said, officials from other federal law enforcement agencies would be temporarily reassigned, and state National Guard troops and local police officers, at least from willing Republican-led states, would be deputized for immigration control efforts."

"Mass DeportationsSoon after Trump announced his 2024 campaign for president last November, he met with Tom Homan, who ran ICE for the first year and a half of the Trump administration and was an early proponent of separating families to deter migrants."

"To help Immigration and Customs Enforcement carry out sweeping raids, he plans to reassign other federal agents and deputize local police officers and National Guard soldiers voluntarily contributed by Republican-run states."

"To help Immigration and Customs Enforcement carry out sweeping raids, he plans to reassign other federal agents and deputize local police officers and National Guard soldiers voluntarily contributed by Republican-run states."

""The Supreme Court has upheld past uses of that law in wartime."

"Trump would invoke the Insurrection Act at the border, enabling the use of federal troops to apprehend migrants, Miller said."

""nnTodd Schulte, the president of FWD.us, an immigration and criminal justice advocacy group that repeatedly fought the Trump administration, said the Trump team's plans relied on "xenophobic demagoguery" that appeals to his hardest-core political base.nn"

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""Any activists who doubt President Trump's resolve in the slightest are making a drastic error."

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"The Trump administration tried to overturn the Flores settlement, but the Supreme Court did not resolve the matter before Trump's term ended."

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"In a recent interview with a right-wing website, Trump claimed without evidence that foreign leaders were deliberately emptying their "insane asylums" to send the patients across America's southern border as migrants."

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"The Trump administration had internally discussed that idea early in Trump's term, but some Cabinet secretaries pushed back, arguing that there was no public health emergency that would legally justify it."

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"Trump tried to end it, but the Supreme Court blocked him on procedural grounds in June 2020.nn"

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"Trump has also said he would invoke an archaic law, the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, to expel suspected members of drug cartels and criminal gangs without due process."

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"DACA is an Obama-era program that shields from deportation and grants work permits to people who were brought unlawfully to the United States as children."

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"By the end of his first term, Cabinet officials and lawyers who sought to restrain some of his actions -- like his Homeland Security secretary and chief of staff, John Kelly -- had been fired, and those who stuck with him had learned much."

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"After an outcry over the practice, Trump ended it in 2018, and a judge later blocked the government from putting it back into effect.nn"

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"And the 5-4 majority of the Supreme Court that blocked the last attempt no longer exists: A few months after the DACA ruling, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died, and Trump replaced her with a sixth conservative, Justice Amy Coney Barrett.nn"

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"And the 5-4 majority of the Supreme Court that blocked the last attempt no longer exists: A few months after the DACA ruling, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died, and Trump replaced her with a sixth conservative, Justice Amy Coney Barrett.nn"

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""nnTrump and his aides have not yet said whether they would reenact one of the most contentious deterrents to unauthorized immigration that he pursued as president: separating children from their parents, which led to trauma among migrants and difficulties in reuniting families."

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"Miller said Trump would try again to end DACA."

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"Miller said Trump would try again to end DACA."

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"In particular, Trump's campaign referred questions for this article to Stephen Miller, an architect of Trump's first-term immigration policies who remains close to him and is expected to serve in a senior role in a second administration.nn"

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"In particular, Trump's campaign referred questions for this article to Stephen Miller, an architect of Trump's first-term immigration policies who remains close to him and is expected to serve in a senior role in a second administration.nn"

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"In a second Trump presidency, the visas of foreign students who participated in anti-Israel or pro-Palestinian protests would be canceled."

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"He would not only revive some of the policies that were criticized as draconian during his presidency, many of which the Biden White House ended, but also expand and toughen them."

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"While such arrangements have traditionally only covered migrants who had previously passed through a third country, federal law does not require that limit, and a second Trump administration would seek to make those deals without it, in part as a deterrent to migrants making what the Trump team views as illegitimate asylum claims.nn"

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"If they get another opportunity, Trump and his team are determined to achieve aual numbers in the millions."

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""nnTrump had similarly vowed to carry out mass deportations when running for office in 2016, but the government only managed several hundred thousand removals per year under his presidency, on par with other recent administrations."

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"And while acknowledging that lawsuits would arise to challenge nearly every one of them, he portrayed the Trump team's daunting array of tactics as a "blitz" designed to overwhelm immigrant rights lawyers.nn"

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"Former President Donald Trump is planning an extreme expansion of his first-term crackdown on immigration if he returns to power in 2025 -- including preparing to round up people living in the United States without legal permission on a vast scale and detain them in sprawling camps while they wait to be expelled.nn"

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"When pressed, Trump has repeatedly declined to rule out reviving the policy."

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"Trump will unleash the vast arsenal of federal powers to implement the most spectacular migration crackdown," Miller said, adding, "The immigration legal activists won't know what's happening."

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"Trump will unleash the vast arsenal of federal powers to implement the most spectacular migration crackdown," Miller said, adding, "The immigration legal activists won't know what's happening."

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"Miller said the Trump team would try again.nnTo increase the number of agents available for ICE sweeps, Miller said, officials from other federal law enforcement agencies would be temporarily reassigned, and state National Guard troops and local police officers, at least from willing Republican-led states, would be deputized for immigration control efforts.nn"

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"Miller said the Trump team would try again.nnTo increase the number of agents available for ICE sweeps, Miller said, officials from other federal law enforcement agencies would be temporarily reassigned, and state National Guard troops and local police officers, at least from willing Republican-led states, would be deputized for immigration control efforts.nn"

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"For example, a second Trump administration would seek to reestablish an agreement with Mexico that asylum-seekers remain there while their claims are processed."

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"U.S. consular officials abroad will be directed to expand ideological screening of visa applicants to block people the Trump administration considers to have undesirable attitudes."

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"Trump would invoke the Insurrection Act at the border, enabling the use of federal troops to apprehend migrants, Miller said.nn"

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"Trump would invoke the Insurrection Act at the border, enabling the use of federal troops to apprehend migrants, Miller said.nn"

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"Trump and his advisers see the opening and now know better how to seize it."

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"The aides Trump relied upon in the chaotic early days of his first term were sometimes at odds and lacked experience in how to manipulate the levers of federal power."

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"Trump's rhetoric has more than kept up with his increasingly extreme agenda on immigration.nn"

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"All of the steps Trump advisers are preparing, Miller contended in a wide-ranging interview, rely on existing statutes; while the Trump team would likely seek a revamp of immigration laws, the plan was crafted to need no new substantive legislation."

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"All of the steps Trump advisers are preparing, Miller contended in a wide-ranging interview, rely on existing statutes; while the Trump team would likely seek a revamp of immigration laws, the plan was crafted to need no new substantive legislation."

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"Trump would also push to revive "safe third country" agreements with several nations in Central America and try to expand them to Africa, Asia and South America."

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"In a second term, Trump plans to install a team that will not restrain him.nn"

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"More broadly, Miller said a new Trump administration would shift from the ICE practice of arresting specific people to carrying out workplace raids and other sweeps in public places aimed at arresting scores of immigrants living in the country without legal permission all at once.nnTo make the process of finding and deporting immigrants already living inside the country without legal permission "radically more quick and efficient," he said, the Trump team would bring in "the right kinds of attorneys and the right kinds of policy thinkers" willing to carry out such ideas.nn"

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"More broadly, Miller said a new Trump administration would shift from the ICE practice of arresting specific people to carrying out workplace raids and other sweeps in public places aimed at arresting scores of immigrants living in the country without legal permission all at once.nnTo make the process of finding and deporting immigrants already living inside the country without legal permission "radically more quick and efficient," he said, the Trump team would bring in "the right kinds of attorneys and the right kinds of policy thinkers" willing to carry out such ideas.nn"

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"In interviews with The New York Times, several Trump advisers gave the most expansive and detailed description yet of Trump's immigration agenda in a potential second term."

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"Since much of Trump's first-term immigration crackdown was tied up in the courts, the legal environment has tilted in his favor: His four years of judicial appointments left behind federal appellate courts and a Supreme Court that are far more conservative than the courts that heard challenges to his first-term policies.nn"

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""nnThe constellation of Trump's 2025 plans amounts to an assault on immigration on a scale unseen in modern American history."

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""nnTrump advisers' vision of abrupt mass deportations would be a recipe for social and economic turmoil, disrupting the housing market and major industries including agriculture and the service sector.nn"

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"And Trump would try to end birthright citizenship for babies born in the United States to parents living in the country without legal permission -- by proclaiming that policy to be the new position of the government and by ordering agencies to cease issuing citizenship-affirming documents like Social Security cards and passports to them."

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"That policy's legal legitimacy, like nearly all of Trump's plans, would be virtually certain to end up before the Supreme Court."

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""Bottom line," he said, "President Trump will do whatever it takes.""

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"Trump would also use coercive diplomacy to induce other nations to help, including by making cooperation a condition of any other bilateral engagement, Miller said."

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"Trump would also use coercive diplomacy to induce other nations to help, including by making cooperation a condition of any other bilateral engagement, Miller said."

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"Trump wants to revive his first-term border policies, including baing entry by people from certain Muslim-majority nations and reimposing a COVID-19-era policy of refusing asylum claims -- although this time, he would base that refusal on assertions that migrants carry other infectious diseases like tuberculosis."

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"In a public reference to his plans, Trump told a crowd in Iowa in September, "Following the Eisenhower model, we will carry out the largest domestic deportation operation in American history.""

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"To help speed mass deportations, Trump is preparing an enormous expansion of a form of removal that does not require due-process hearings."

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"Mass DeportationsSoon after Trump aounced his 2024 campaign for president last November, he met with Tom Homan, who ran ICE for the first year and a half of the Trump administration and was an early proponent of separating families to deter migrants."

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"The Trump administration tried to expand the use of expedited removal, but a court blocked it, and then the Biden team canceled the expansion."

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"The Trump administration tried to expand the use of expedited removal, but a court blocked it, and then the Biden team canceled the expansion."

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"Trump plans to suspend the nation's refugee program and once again categorically ban visitors from troubled countries, reinstating a version of his ban on travel from several mostly Muslim-majority countries, which President Joe Biden called discriminatory and ended on his first day in office."

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"Trump plans to suspend the nation's refugee program and once again categorically ban visitors from troubled countries, reinstating a version of his ban on travel from several mostly Muslim-majority countries, which President Joe Biden called discriminatory and ended on his first day in office."

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"The administration ultimately implemented it during the coronavirus pandemic.Saying the idea has since gained acceptance in practice -- Biden initially kept the policy -- Miller said Trump would invoke Title 42, citing "severe strains of the flu, tuberculosis, scabies, other respiratory illnesses like RSV and so on, or just a general issue of mass migration being a public health threat and conveying a variety of communicable diseases."

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"The administration ultimately implemented it during the coronavirus pandemic.Saying the idea has since gained acceptance in practice -- Biden initially kept the policy -- Miller said Trump would invoke Title 42, citing "severe strains of the flu, tuberculosis, scabies, other respiratory illnesses like RSV and so on, or just a general issue of mass migration being a public health threat and conveying a variety of communicable diseases."

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"The administration ultimately implemented it during the coronavirus pandemic.Saying the idea has since gained acceptance in practice -- Biden initially kept the policy -- Miller said Trump would invoke Title 42, citing "severe strains of the flu, tuberculosis, scabies, other respiratory illnesses like RSV and so on, or just a general issue of mass migration being a public health threat and conveying a variety of communicable diseases."

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