1 million a year: Inside Trump’s ‘illegal’ crackdown on immigrants

Since taking office in 2025, President Donald Trump has overseen a sharp expansion of immigration arrests, a steep drop in unlawful border crossings, and a sweeping rollback of legal protections that once shielded hundreds of thousands from deportation.
The administration’s budget documents show that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) aims to deport 1 million immigrants per year.