The region is home to one of the nation’s largest and oldest Hispanic communities, which underpins the economy.

President Donald Trump campaigned on delivering the largest mass deportation effort in US history. What he has delivered so far is a dramatic surge in arrests by Immigration and Customs Enforcement of people who were living in the U.

Trump has been pushing Congress to send him more resources to expand the deportation effort and adequately secure the US-Mexico border. On the issue of immigration broadly, Trump notched a 50% approval rating, which tops his scorecard on the economy (42%) and overall approval rating (45%).

The White House told ICE to target Home Depot. That has disrupted the company’s symbiotic relationship with the day laborers outside its stores.

In his crackdown on illegal immigration, Trump is testing the moral and legal extremes to which the government is willing to go

By Andrew Goudsward WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the man wrongly deported from Maryland to El Salvador before being returned to the United States on migrant smuggling charges, is seeking sanctions against the Trump administration for allegedly stonewalling an inquiry into efforts to secure his return.

President Donald Trump isn’t really planning any changes to his immigration or deportation policies, multiple people told The Washington Post. Trump said in a Truth Social post on Thursday that changes were coming to protect farmers from losing workers due deportations, the Post said. He mentioned hotel workers in the post as well.

Lawrence O’Donnell has called Trump the “slowest and stupidest president in history” for his recent realization that farm-working migrants are essential to the U.S. economy. During his most recent flagellation of the president on The Last Word,