Good afternoon and welcome to your afternoon news update from AP. Today, U.S. President Donald Trump's mass deportation agenda is at a crossroads with the Homeland Security shake-up; European leaders seek clarity about Trump's Iran war aims before agreeing to his warship demands; and Poland emerges as one of the world's 20 largest economies.
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A group of undocumented migrants is deported by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents across the McAllen–Hidalgo–Reynosa International Bridge in McAllen, Texas, Friday. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez) |
Trump's mass deportation agenda is at a crossroads with the Homeland Security shake-up |
The Department of Homeland Security will soon be under new management, an opportunity to reset President Donald Trump's immigration agenda or to double down on his signature campaign promise to conduct the largest deportation operation in American history. All indications are that Trump's mass deportation operation is not stalling out but intensifying, with billions of dollars being spent to hire Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers, build warehouse detention sites and meet the administration's goal of rounding up and removing some 1 million immigrants from the U.S. this year. Read more. |
