President Trump, during his second term, has implemented a comprehensive strategy to reduce both illegal and legal immigration, fulfilling his campaign promise of mass deportations. This approach includes significant funding for immigration enforcement, reducing legal immigration pathways, altering immigration courts, and expanding detention and deportation infrastructure. These measures limit immigrants’ options to remain in the U.S. and remove previous routes to legal status. Some strategies have faced legal challenges, with courts occasionally blocking them, while others, like ending temporary protected status for certain nationalities, have been upheld. The Supreme Court is also reviewing Trump’s attempt to end birthright citizenship. NPR’s Ximena Bustillo explores these policies’ impacts on federal workers and immigrants, drawing from extensive reporting and interviews.
QUESTION: How might these immigration policies influence the future of diversity and inclusion in the United States?
Inside the coordinated strategy to radically reshape U.S. immigration
