On Jan. 20, 2025, President Donald Trump took the rostrum at his inauguration and promised to halt unauthorized border crossings and “start the method of returning thousands and thousands and thousands and thousands of prison aliens to the locations from which they got here.”
ProPublica and The Texas Tribune spent the primary 12 months of Trump’s second time period inspecting in actual time how this drive to take away immigrants unfolded throughout the nation.
We collected information the federal government wouldn’t present or didn’t observe, together with what number of U.S. residents had been held by immigration brokers. We investigated the crowd-control strategies federal brokers utilized in Los Angeles and Chicago and spoke to the households of immigrants that the federal government despatched to Guantanamo. After the Trump administration flew greater than 230 males to a maximum-security jail in El Salvador, we partnered with Venezuelan journalists to collect information and unique U.S. authorities information. The administration insisted these males had been the “worst of the worst.” Our reporting confirmed that the overwhelming majority didn’t have prison convictions within the U.S.
The drive towards mass deportation tops the Trump administration’s checklist of first-year “wins.” Border crossings have plummeted and the variety of individuals held in detention every day is reaching historic highs. As federal brokers sweep throughout U.S. cities and cities, administration officers insist that this multibillion-dollar effort is making the nation safer.
Reporter Perla Trevizo breaks down the dizzying first yr of Trump’s mass deportation marketing campaign. Has his administration fulfilled its guarantees — and if that’s the case, at what price?
