Immigration

NPR - It’s been almost 100 days since President Trump took office and promised to deliver mass deportations. The Migration Policy Institute estimates that while arrests have increased, the pace of deportations is, so far, down from the last fiscal year of the Biden administration. Over the weekend, federal authorities say they arrested more than 100 people without legal status at an underground nightclub in Colorado Springs.

Critics say the Trump administration is in such a rush to drive up deportation numbers that they’re making mistakes, NPR’s Joel Rose tells Up First. In one case, a 2-year-old American citizen was deported last week. The mother did not have legal status, but her daughter was born in Louisiana. According to a lawsuit filed by the mother’s attorney, authorities held her and her children without allowing them to speak with anyone before they were deported to Honduras. Concerned by how this case was handled, a judge has set a hearing for next month.