Updated June 30, 2026 at 11:21 AM EDT
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President Trump campaigned on a promise of . More than a year into his second term, the White House has taken a sweeping approach to curbing illegal and legal migration.
Ximena Bustillo, NPR's immigration policy correspondent, breaks down the five strategies that make up the administration's mass deportation policy.
They include providing for immigration , stripping , reshaping previously immigration courts and focused on of those detained and deported. It's a strategy that limits immigrants' options for arguing for permission to stay in the U.S., and eliminates previous pathways to legal status.
Over the past year, judges as high up as on the U.S. Supreme Court have weighed in on the measures taken. In some instances, district court rulings have barred some of the strategies, including ordering federal officers to stop making arrests in immigration courts. The high court on Tuesday , rebuking a Trump executive order meant to repeal it.
Other efforts have been by the courts, including the Supreme Court's most recent ruling to end temporary protected status (TPS) for Haitians and Syrians and a policy that allows border officials to before they physically cross to claim asylum.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday weighs in on Trump's landmark executive order that sought to end birthright citizenship.
Bustillo travels to Arizona, California and New York to break down this strategy 鈥� and the impacts on the agency, federal workers and immigrants going through these complicated systems.
Relying on over a year of reporting, policy memos, data and ultimately dozens of interviews, the Trump administration's strategy becomes clear.
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