Launched the largest interior immigration-enforcement push in modern history, expanding ICE arrests, detention and removals and ending humanitarian parole programs, backed by EOs 14159, 14165 and others.
A suite of executive orders plus expanded ICE operations, detention capacity and state/local cooperation.
Mixed impactsubstantiated
Removals rose and border crossings fell sharply.
ICE removed ~442,000 in FY2025 (about 171,000 more than the prior year); Southwest border arrests fell to multi-decade lows. DHS claimed millions of 'self-deportations' (a contested figure).
Negative impactsubstantiated
Interior arrests of non-criminals and detention rose steeply.
Interior deportations rose to ~4.5x pre-inauguration levels; ICE detention grew ~75% (from ~40,000 to ~66,000) in 2025, with arrests of people without criminal convictions increasing.
Negative impactcontested
Due-process and civil-liberties concerns and economic effects on labor-dependent industries.
Advocacy groups documented harsher detention conditions; effects on agriculture, construction and services labor markets were debated.