Trump Administration Immigration Actions
Mass Deportations Off to a Slow Start
Join MWWIR for an overview of immigration actions taken thus far by the Trump administration, their effects and limitations, and an update on available data, including on immigration enforcement. Our guests from the Migration Policy Institute will underscore the dramatic decrease in arrivals at the U.S.-Mexico border, the mobilization of agencies across the U.S. government to facilitate deportations, and share insights from three recent MPI publications:
- Trump Administration Bends U.S. Government in Extraordinary Ways towards Aim of Mass Deportations
- Explainer: ICE Arrests and Deportations from the U.S. Interior
- Comparing the Biden and Trump Deportation Records
Kathleen Bush-Joseph, JD is a lawyer and Policy Analyst in the US Immigration Policy Program of the Migration Policy Institute. Previously, she worked at the National Immigrant Justice Center in Chicago, where she represented unaccompanied immigrant children. Earlier, she consulted for the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) in Geneva, and represented tenants in New York City Housing Court as a staff attorney at the Legal Aid Society.
Colleen Putzel-Kavanaugh is an Associate Policy Analyst in the US Immigration Policy Program of the Migration Policy Institute, where she focuses on the U.S.-Mexico border, including analysis of trends in border arrivals, migration at and between ports of entry, migrant processing, and the role of NGOs in border communities.