Overview

• Trump’s Truth Social order directs ICE to focus on Los Angeles, Chicago and New York with a goal of 3,000 daily arrests in what he calls the largest mass deportation program in history
• The administration labels these urban areas “Democrat Power Centers” and accuses them of using undocumented immigrants to influence elections and expand welfare rolls
• Over 5 million people took part in “No Kings Day” rallies at more than 2,000 locations to protest the administration’s enforcement actions
• Thousands of National Guard troops and hundreds of Marines remain stationed in Los Angeles despite a federal judge ruling that their deployment was illegal
• ICE is operating $1 billion over its budget and could exhaust its funding by next month, raising doubts about sustaining the expanded operations