Inside Trump’s Deportation Push, and the U.S. Holds Talks With Hamas
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What is today's main news coverage on The Headlines?
From The New York Times, it's The Headlines. I'm Tracy Mumford. Today's Thursday, March 6th. Here's what we're covering.
It turns out we didn't need new laws. We didn't need fancy legislation. We just needed a new president of the United States.
How is the Trump administration handling immigration and deportations?
Vice President J.D. Vance was at the U.S.-Mexico border yesterday to highlight a drop in border crossings. The number of migrants apprehended at the border is now the lowest in more than two decades. But Vance was on the defensive about another part of the administration's hardline immigration policies, the rate of deportations.
So let me say a few things about that. So first of all, Rome wasn't built in a day.
Trump campaigned on the promise of the largest deportation operation in U.S. history. But despite a spike in arrests, the U.S. government has been deporting fewer people than last year.
I guarantee it is a part of the president's priorities. We'll keep on working on it. We've made a lot of progress, but we're going to keep on working on it over the remainder of the president's term.
This lag in the pace of deportations has already caused concern, even frustration, among some of President Trump's top immigration advisors.
My colleague Zolan Kano-Youngs has been reporting on how there's increasing pressure on Trump's immigration team to follow through on the president's campaign promises.
Our reporting has found that Tom Homan, the czar of this deportation effort, and Stephen Beller, the architect of Trump's immigration agenda, are meeting each morning, sometimes in their office in the White House, sometimes in the Situation Room, and are studying these numbers, deportations, detentions, trying to strategize on ways to ramp up these deportation numbers.
What obstacles are slowing down deportations under Trump's presidency?
Zolan says Homan and others have run into several obstacles. Finding, arresting, and detaining migrants is expensive and time-consuming, and the Department of Homeland Security has long said it's short on resources. There's also been a recent push in immigrant communities for undocumented people to keep a low profile and avoid authorities. Amid these challenges, Zolan says the administration is discussing new tactics.
We've discovered what some of these proposals are. DHS has gone to the IRS and asked them to turn over addresses of hundreds of thousands of people it wants to deport. At this point, it does not seem the IRS has agreed to that request. And then also the administration is considering reinstating the practice of detaining immigrant families. That's a tactic that came under fire because of concerns around detaining particularly immigrant children and the conditions of some of those facilities. All of these are measures not just to ramp up deportations, but in some case, create an environment that's so uncomfortable that immigrants decide to self-deport. And it's also a sign of sort of a sense of urgency, the sense of, you know, some might even say desperation on this administration to get these numbers up.
Now, three other updates on the Trump administration.
How is the Trump administration responding to tariff concerns from automakers?
They requested the call, they made the ask, and the president is happy to do it. It's a one-month exemption.
Just a day after President Trump's sweeping tariffs against Canada and Mexico kicked in, he gave automakers a one-month reprieve. The temporary exemption to the 25% surcharge came after the heads of GM, Ford, and Stellantis all got on the phone with Trump and told him that the new tariffs would effectively erase all of their company's profits.
What was the Supreme Court's recent decision on Trump's foreign aid freeze?
Also yesterday, the Supreme Court, in a 5-4 vote, blocked Trump's effort to freeze $2 billion in foreign aid. The narrow decision suggests that the court may be more skeptical of Trump's attempts to reshape the government than some expected, considering its conservative majority. It's less clear what will happen to the aid itself. The court sent the issue back down to a district court, which will hold a hearing today about how much of the funding needs to start flowing again.
And... The federal government does not exist to employ people. It exists to serve people.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is today's main news coverage on The Headlines?
0:02–0:20
2
How is the Trump administration handling immigration and deportations?
0:20–1:47
3
What obstacles are slowing down deportations under Trump's presidency?
1:47–3:17
4
How is the Trump administration responding to tariff concerns from automakers?
3:17–3:48
5
What was the Supreme Court's recent decision on Trump's foreign aid freeze?
3:48–4:29
6
What are the implications of workforce changes in the federal government?
4:29–10:10
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