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Trump won re-election after a campaign in which he called the migrant surge the \u201cgreatest invasion in history.\u201d From 2021 to 2023, more than seven million people tried to cross the border illegally, and about 3.3 million were released<\/a> into the country. Early in his term, Biden backed a Democratic bill with a path to citizenship for 11 million undocumented people, but Republicans refused to bring it to a vote. In 2024, Trump helped kill a bipartisan bill on border security to keep the political pressure on Democrats ahead of the election.<\/p>\n Bitta Mostofi, former senior official at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (U.S.C.I.S.): The Biden administration was so worried about talking about immigration that every day it wasn\u2019t in the news was a good day. But you can\u2019t implement a vision in silence. The anti-immigrant narrative was effectively weaponized against us, with lots of resources behind it, and we did not tell a different story.<\/p>\n Blas Nu\u00f1ez-Neto, former chief operating officer of Customs and Border Protection (C.B.P.): The vast majority of people who cross the border illegally don\u2019t try to evade the Border Patrol. They go right up to agents and turn themselves in to make an asylum claim. There was a lot of frustration with the way that our asylum system had just become a front door. Agents were aware that the vast majority of people they\u2019re processing are not actually fleeing persecution \u2014 they\u2019re economic migrants.<\/p>\n Mark Koumans, former deputy executive assistant commissioner for operations support at C.B.P.: In 2022 and 2023, C.B.P. encountered 5,000 to 10,000 undocumented migrants a day. Out of necessity, our bread and butter was providing temporary housing, food, medical and other care and relieving the overcrowding. Everyone coming has to be fed. The kids need diapers. The diabetics need medication. And the pregnant women need prenatal care.<\/p>\n When we hit 10,000 encounters per day in December 2023 \u2014 the highest ever, by far \u2014 the wheels were starting to come off. It\u2019s a wonder more people didn\u2019t die in custody, but it\u2019s also a testament to the efforts of the Border Patrol.<\/p>\n Ryan Schwank, former ICE attorney: The Biden administration teed up the tragedy we\u2019re seeing now, including by pushing immigration courts to leave asylum cases in limbo. Once the Trump administration began, the goal was to find a way to remove these individuals \u2014 not at all costs, but pretty close to it. <\/p>\n \u2018There was a lot of frustration with the way that our asylum system had just become a front door.\u2019<\/p>\n Blas Nu\u00f1ez-Neto, former chief operating officer of Customs and Border Protection<\/p>\n January 20, 2025<\/p>\n On his first day in office, Trump issued a set of executive orders that shut down avenues for legal entry established by the Biden administration. Trump also expanded the categories of people subject to \u201cexpedited removal,\u201d a fast-track process that allows for deportation without a hearing before an immigration judge.<\/p>\n Border Patrol agents processing migrants at the Southern border on the first day of Donald Trump\u2019s second term. Guillermo Arias\/Agence France-Presse \u2014 Getty Images<\/p>\n Mark Koumans, former deputy executive assistant commissioner for operations support at C.B.P.: Asylum was basically turned off. Everyone was sent back to Mexico or from whence they came. Trump\u2019s appointees thought it all through, and that showed in the president\u2019s executive orders. Very rapidly, the migrants and cartels understood it\u2019s a different game now.<\/p>\n Rafael Reyes, former Border Patrol agent in charge in Deming, N.M.: For Border Patrol, it came as a relief. They went from catching thousands to hundreds to close to zero. The spaces in downtown El Paso where migrants congregated \u2014 the churches, parks, bus stations \u2014 they started to clear out. That was the honeymoon period. Then it turned into something different. No one expected the volume of deportations.<\/p>\n \u2018I always told my agents, \u201cThis is a career, not a crusade.\u201d\u2019<\/p>\n Rafael Reyes, former Border Patrol agent in charge in Deming, N.M.<\/p>\n January 25<\/p>\n The Senate confirmed Kristi Noem, the Republican governor of South Dakota, as secretary of homeland security. Corey Lewandowski, Trump\u2019s 2016 campaign manager, joined D.H.S. with a special status that allowed him to serve as Noem\u2019s unpaid chief adviser while continuing his consulting business.<\/p>\n Kristi Noem before being sworn in as secretary of homeland security in January 2025. She was fired less than 14 months later. Kent Nishimura\/Getty Images<\/p>\n Jason Marks, former supervisory refugee officer at U.S.C.I.S.: At Secretary Noem\u2019s first D.H.S. town hall, she came out onstage to the theme song \u201cHot Mama,\u201d spoke for maybe a few minutes and took no questions and left. I wasn\u2019t in the room, but it was something everyone was talking about in real time. It felt like a \u201cSouth Park\u201d moment.<\/p>\n Danny Chin, former associate counsel at U.S.C.I.S.: We were disappointed that someone was chosen with so little relevant experience. Her claim to fame was killing a puppy<\/a>, so there were a lot of morbid jokes about how she could apply that philosophy to immigrants.<\/p>\n Former D.H.S. executive 1: When Noem came in, she wanted a quote-unquote \u201cbackground\u201d done on new hires to know that you\u2019re actually an administration supporter. <\/p>\n Former employee in the D.H.S. policy office: Lewandowski would take some phone calls on Noem\u2019s behalf. It seemed like he was making decisions. There were rumors that he would troll the halls and see empty desks and check the name plates and submit them for a purge of employees. So people started leaving Post-it notes on their desks, like: In a meeting. In the restroom. <\/p>\n Early February <\/p>\n As the administration began ramping up operations, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which traditionally conducts targeted arrests inside the country, was joined by agents from Customs and Border Protection, who were used to operating with fewer restrictions. D.H.S. began detaining people near schools, hospitals, courthouses and places of worship after Trump rescinded a policy against enforcement at \u201csensitive locations\u201d that had been in place for decades.<\/a><\/p>\n A man detained in February 2025 in Denver, one the cities throughout the country that saw a surge of ICE agents. Kevin Mohatt\/Reuters<\/p>\n Mark Koumans, former deputy executive assistant commissioner for operations support at C.B.P.: Offices all over the country were asked to provide dozens of agents to go help ICE. Then we saw D.E.A. and F.B.I. and A.T.F. \u2014 everyone \u2014 in the streets. The joke in the hallways became, We all work for ICE now.<\/p>\n ICE agent: Most ICE agents were happy to be doing actual law enforcement, but there were others who were very nervous. They were like, Bro, I don\u2019t know what I\u2019m doing out on the street. I would get a lot of calls from people asking questions like, Hey, when I knock at the door, what do I tell them?<\/p>\n Teresa Pedregon, former deputy chief patrol agent at the northern border: Going into Walmart parking lots, setting up a checkpoint \u2014 I\u2019ve never seen anything like this in my career. It\u2019s a complete shift in the way Border Patrol has historically conducted enforcement operations.<\/p>\n Homeland Security Investigations (H.S.I.) agent 1: They changed the mission of Homeland Security Investigations, which falls under the ICE umbrella. Under President Biden, H.S.I. was entirely focused on transnational crime, ranging from human trafficking and smuggling to narcotics trafficking, money laundering and child exploitation. Essentially, we were told to pause all those criminal investigations, unless they have a nexus to an illegal alien. Instead, we\u2019d be doing civil immigration enforcement.<\/p>\n ICE lawyer: H.S.I. used to investigate companies that were violating labor laws. Now, instead of going after the business owners, they would be going after the employees. They had to hit five workplaces every single day. It started with anything that sounded even vaguely Hispanic and then became completely indiscriminate.<\/p>\n (Bis, the D.H.S. spokeswoman, claimed that H.S.I. has no quotas and said The Times was \u201cpeddling a FALSE narrative.\u201d)<\/p>\n H.S.I. agent 2: We pulled over a guy on our list we\u2019d been surveilling. There\u2019s a kid in the back of the car, about 8 years old. He\u2019s crying. It\u2019s clear that he\u2019s distressed. He\u2019s not really comprehending what\u2019s going on. The dad tells me he\u2019s autistic.<\/p>\n I\u2019m like, We\u2019re not arresting this guy. So I told the guy in Spanish: Get an attorney, whatever you got to do. You\u2019re here unlawfully. You\u2019re subject to deportation. The guy started crying. I said: Look, I get it. I\u2019m a dad. Just go. I know for a fact that there are agents that would not have done that. They would have been like: Somebody else can take care of the kid. We can bring Child Services.<\/p>\n ICE agent: Bystanders were recording agents and doxxing them. One of us would get photographed and put on Instagram, and you\u2019d send the link around like, They got so-and-so. Then the mask thing started. I\u2019d try to explain what was going on to the people we were arresting in a less threatening way, like, We\u2019re just going to bring you in because you have a final order of removal, and when we get there, we\u2019re going to review everything. But it was harder to calm the person down if I had somebody with me that\u2019s in a mask. I like not being a hypocrite, and I would be nervous to open my door to a dude in a mask.<\/p>\n H.S.I. agent 1: There was an incredible amount of pressure for numbers. Publicly, the administration was saying we\u2019re going after hard-core criminals. But in reality, day to day, we were doing everything but that. If we arrested a hundred individuals, maybe 10, 15 had serious criminal violations.<\/p>\n At times, there was borderline profiling. One time, my guys were assisting agents sitting on an address because they had a specific target package for an individual who was a Hispanic male. A different Hispanic male comes out of the house, jumps into a car, drives away, and the agents initiate a car stop. Just because he\u2019s also Hispanic. I told my agents, Do not engage in this type of behavior. We had a lot of agents retire or leave because of the moral dilemma.<\/p>\n (\u201cAny allegations ICE law enforcement engages in racial profiling are FALSE,\u201d wrote Bis, the D.H.S. spokeswoman.) <\/p>\n February 9<\/p>\n In an interview<\/a> on CNN, Noem said she had granted Elon Musk\u2019s DOGE team access to D.H.S. data to detect waste, fraud and abuse. Claiming that fraud was rife in government services, Trump officials instructed U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to more stringently vet visas, work permits and green cards; they also directed ICE to request data from other federal agencies.<\/p>\n Former ICE technology official: Leadership told us to start asking for data from Social Security and Medicare \u2014 places that historically have been firewalled from immigration. Like, Hey, open the doors to Medicare so we can figure out the last three hospitals this person went to. They\u2019re trying to pull as much information as they can to track these folks down, but that data was walled off for a reason. For example, if you think your Medicare data might be shared, you might not go to the doctor when you have a highly communicable disease, and that harms the whole community. I think data privacy is going to be one of the bigger casualties of not keeping the adults in the room.<\/p>\n \u200b\u200bSarah Pierce, former policy analyst at U.S.C.I.S.: In meetings, the career staff above me started saying our programs were riddled with fraud. I was shocked. They were trying to save their jobs by showing the administration they wanted to come down hard on asylum seekers. But it didn\u2019t pay off. My division no longer exists.<\/p>\n Susan Raufer, former supervisory refugee officer and former head of the Newark asylum office: We were assigned to go through old files and do more security checks and vetting after they paused all the refugee applications.<\/p>\n I remember a case from Central America of a woman who had been sexually trafficked by her spouse and had fled from him. The way the law is written, you can show fear of persecution if the persecutor is your government or an entity your government is unable to protect you from. She\u2019d gone to the authorities in her country, and they sent her home. So she went into hiding. She went through all the hoops and was granted refugee status, but because of the pause, she\u2019s still there, waiting.<\/p>\n March 10<\/p>\n Honduras signed an agreement with the United States to receive asylum seekers from countries in Central America. Guatemala, Ecuador and a few African nations later did the same. Over the course of the year, according to Human Rights First, the United States sent nearly 14,000 people to these and other third-party countries,<\/a> where some reported<\/a> being detained, tortured and separated from family members, including children.<\/p>\n Asylum seekers on a transport plane headed from El Paso to Guatemala on Jan. 30, 2025, shortly after Trump took office. Paul Ratje for The New York Times<\/p>\n Danny Chin, former associate counsel at U.S.C.I.S.: These are countries with no real asylum process and rampant human rights violations. But the Board of Immigration Appeals approved removals to these countries, and then immigration judges said they had to grant the government\u2019s motions. A lot of people will be detained indefinitely in these countries where they have no ties. The administration uses these removals to instill fear. They want people to self-deport.<\/p>\n Kerry Doyle<\/a>, former chief of ICE\u2019s legal branch and former immigration judge: Before the current administration, there were a handful of examples of third-country removals, but never anything like this volume. The government is also not sharing the agreements with the third countries in court. For immigration judges to go along with that is highly suspect, in terms of due process and our international obligations.<\/p>\n March 21<\/p>\n Noem largely dismantled the D.H.S. ombudsman\u2019s offices and the Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, which investigates civil rights complaints involving the department. \u201cThese offices have obstructed immigration enforcement by adding bureaucratic hurdles,\u201d Tricia McLaughlin, then a department spokeswoman, said at the time<\/a>. <\/p>\n Sarah Pierce, former policy analyst at U.S.C.I.S.: This administration isn\u2019t prioritizing oversight. There\u2019s a strong relationship between that and the record number of nearly 50 deaths in detention on Trump\u2019s watch.<\/p>\n I think what has scared me the most is how incentivized the administration seems to be to make the conditions poor. They want detention to be a place you can\u2019t stand to be. That\u2019s why we\u2019re hearing about overcrowding, poor sanitary conditions and no temperature regulation. <\/p>\n Immigration detention is not supposed to be prison. It\u2019s civil, not criminal. But these places are like prison, or worse. And there are thousands of children there.<\/p>\n Rebekah Tosado, former section director in the D.H.S. Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties: Our job was to conduct oversight over how D.H.S. carries out its mission. They called us \u201cinternal adversaries.\u201d We had 147 employees. Now detention has exploded, and there are two full-time employees, a handful of contractors and a political appointee with no civil rights experience.<\/p>\n D.H.S. attorney: I saw a handwritten letter from dozens of people at a detention facility. They all signed their names. They made allegations about the food, medical care and sanitation, and they said their use of the law library was heavily restricted, which would be a violation of the department\u2019s standards. The field office said there were no issues \u2014 and that\u2019s it. It doesn\u2019t matter if the field office is lying. And they know that.<\/p>\n \u2018You don\u2019t send someone back if that means putting them in harm\u2019s way.\u2019<\/p>\n Jason Marks, former supervisory refugee officer at U.S.C.I.S.<\/p>\n March 25<\/p>\n Noem began terminating programs that allowed more than a million people to live and work in the United States temporarily. They came from a dozen countries, including Cuba, Haiti, Syria and Venezuela, that previous administrations designated as dangerous. <\/p>\n Former policy analyst at U.S.C.I.S.: Unfortunately, I was part of the team that dismantled temporary protected status. Countries I\u2019d written up as unsafe a few months earlier were supposed to be safe now. It was a complete farce. Even if it was still unsafe to return, they said it was not in the national interest to continue the programs. Haiti in particular felt very wrong. They terminated the program without any wind-down period. It was just, Get out of the country.<\/p>\n (Bis, the D.H.S. spokeswoman, noted that Haitians were granted temporary protection after an earthquake 16 years ago. \u201cIt was never intended to be a de facto amnesty program,\u201d she wrote. \u201cTemporary means temporary.\u201d)<\/p>\n Jason Marks, former supervisory refugee officer at U.S.C.I.S.: When those protections are suddenly terminated, you\u2019re effectively shifting large groups of people from legal status to no legal status. And there\u2019s a principle of international law here: non-refoulement \u2014 you don\u2019t send someone back if that means putting them in harm\u2019s way.<\/p>\n April 7<\/p>\n The administration canceled social and legal services for families affected by Trump\u2019s \u201czero tolerance\u201d policy during his first term, when children were separated from their parents at the southern border. A 2023 court settlement mandated services for about 5,000 children and their parents and set up a special process for them to apply for asylum. Nonetheless, the Trump administration has detained at least 25 family members and deported six. \u201cThe facts and truth remain the same,\u201d Tricia McLaughlin, then a D.H.S. spokeswoman, said<\/a> of the deportations. \u201cThese individuals were here illegally.\u201d<\/p>\n Kate Angustia, former U.S.C.I.S. lawyer: In the first Trump administration, these kids were in detention without care and support, with the government arguing in court about whether toothpaste was a valid health need. It took forever for their parents to find them.<\/p>\n Michelle Bran\u00e9, former ombudsman for the Office of Immigration Detention: I led the Family Reunification Task Force under Biden. Hundreds of children hadn\u2019t seen their parents for years. Depending on their age, the kids separated under \u201czero tolerance\u201d had a lot of different responses \u2014 all of them traumatized. They regressed in toilet training, in speech, in behavior. Every health care professional we consulted agreed that forced separation from a parent is extreme trauma.<\/p>\n Former D.H.S. policy official: We had a meeting early in the year about these families with D.H.S. lawyers who had been working on this case for years. There was one guy there from the director\u2019s office who wanted to prove how gung-ho he was, and he kept saying there has to be a way to deny all these people, as he put it. We\u2019re saying, No, that is a violation of the settlement agreement. But he kept hammering.<\/p>\n The judge who was overseeing the settlement later ordered the<\/a> government to restore services and bring back<\/a> the families who were deported. But so far they haven\u2019t been returned.<\/p>\n April 11<\/p>\n A Justice Department memo<\/a> said immigration judges could dismiss asylum cases without a full evidentiary hearing if asylum seekers filed incomplete or legally defective applications. An earlier department memo<\/a> rescinded guidance<\/a> in 2023 that provided people with limited proficiency in English \u201creasonable access\u201d to language services outside of court to file legal documents (as well as in-court translation).<\/p>\n Mimi Tsankov, former immigration judge: When people file their own cases, or their lawyers miss something, their asylum applications often don\u2019t tell their whole stories. The message of the April memo was to speed through the cases quickly without giving people a second chance to fix their mistakes.<\/p>\n ICE lawyer: I think it\u2019s a great idea for judges to have that authority. Lawyers used to apply for asylum for their clients and leave the form completely blank as to what the reasoning is. So the client would get years in the United States before they had to show up at a hearing and give a rationale. There are cases where the lawyers literally write \u201cgangs\u201d as the rationale. One word.<\/p>\n Amanda Ceja, former interpreter in the Denver immigration court: We were directed to give out forms in English and also told that we couldn\u2019t offer any additional explanation. People didn\u2019t know what the rules were. Our lines at the window went all the way down the hall, and the phone calls were incessant. All we could say was, You need to talk to an attorney. I saw a lot of people get scammed by people who fraudulently represented themselves as attorneys. I felt I could no longer carry out my role to ensure meaningful communication. That\u2019s why I chose to leave.<\/p>\n \u2018For fear of repercussions, people started avoiding exercising their rights by coming to court.\u2019<\/p>\n Mimi Tsankov, former immigration judge<\/p>\n May 21<\/p>\n Miller and Noem called the heads of D.H.S. field offices to Washington for a meeting about increasing the number of arrests and deportations. Miller said on Fox News that he wanted a minimum of 3,000 arrests a day, for a million deportations in 2025.<\/p>\n Stephen Miller, Trump\u2019s homeland security adviser, who in May of 2025, set a target of 3,000 ICE arrests a day. Haiyun Jiang for The New York Times<\/p>\n Former ICE senior executive: We knew we were going to get a tongue lashing. We\u2019d already been hearing, You\u2019re not doing enough. The expectation was that someone was going to read us the riot act.<\/p>\n Todd Lyons, the ICE director, introduced the secretary. She says to us, If I get fired in six months, I\u2019m going to make sure you get fired in six months. And I\u2019m like: Hold on a second. I\u2019ve been doing this for over 30 years, and you just got six months under your belt. You should get fired because you don\u2019t know how to run the mission.<\/p>\n Then Stephen Miller goes up next, and he chastises our director. He dresses him down in front of us. And I\u2019m like, This is so unprofessional. A field office director says: We\u2019re working through the list, but we\u2019re having some challenges with the list. We\u2019re going to get it done. We\u2019re trying our hardest.<\/p>\n And Miller looks at Todd and says: What are you telling your people? I told you \u2014 there is no list. Everyone is fair game.<\/p>\n Once that happened, I knew it was time for me to go. When he said, There is no list; you\u2019ve just got to go and get them \u2014 well, define \u201cthem.\u201d How do I know who \u201cthey\u201d are? I\u2019m brown, so what, you\u2019re just going to approach every brown person and ask them what their citizenship is?<\/p>\n (A White House spokesperson said Miller was highlighting the need to implement the president\u2019s agenda, not chastising Lyons.)<\/p>\n Former ICE field office director: Stephen Miller was like: Reasonable suspicion is all you need. You have that authority.<\/p>\n He\u2019s very savvy, very smart. I have a lot of respect for him. He had his pulse on everything from the interior enforcement to the border.<\/p>\n He gets very frustrated. This is what I want done, and why isn\u2019t it done already? When agents lost track of a Columbia student who protested in support of Palestinians that Miller wanted arrested, he blew a gasket. He said: You\u2019re telling me that an antisemitic hater of the Western world was able to outmaneuver, outsmart, outflank, outthink federal agents? I\u2019m supposed to go back to the president of the United States and tell him that you don\u2019t know where an 18-year-old person is on campus?<\/p>\n (A White House official said the president has pledged to revoke visas for \u201canyone who hates America, undermines our country and poses a risk to our national security.\u201d)<\/p>\n May 25<\/p>\n Noem traveled to Israel to attend a memorial service for two staff members of the Israeli Embassy who were killed in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n Noem with Israeli police officers at Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv last May. Alex Brandon\/Agence France-Presse \u2014 Getty Images<\/p>\n D.H.S. official: Noem\u2019s team was suspicious of the careers, so they hadn\u2019t been involved in strategic planning for her trip. Right before she left, on a Saturday, the director who was responsible for the region got a voice mail saying: Hey, the advance team has just booked another meeting with an Israeli minister. The meeting is tomorrow. You need to write a memo. But this guy was in a U-Haul driving his kid\u2019s stuff home from college. So the person above him, who doesn\u2019t specialize in the region, offered to step in. He was at dinner with his wife, got this call and said: I\u2019ll go home. I\u2019ll do it.<\/p>\n Noem\u2019s team hadn\u2019t mentioned the minister\u2019s name. So he looked up the ministry and plugged in what he saw. A number of Trump appointees cleared it. The secretary reads the memo, goes into the meeting \u2014 and it\u2019s a different minister because Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had recently shuffled his cabinet and the website hadn\u2019t been updated.<\/p>\n Two people were removed from their positions. One, the director who was driving the U-Haul, because he should have been available, and then his boss, who had stepped up. This was one of the people key to implementing Trump\u2019s policy initiatives during his first term. They just pushed him out without even thinking strategically: Wait a minute. What experience and background are we losing if we get rid of this guy?<\/p>\n Former employee in the D.H.S. policy office: One of the other Middle East experts had already left. It had been such a hostile work environment. They had let all this expertise leave, and then they\u2019re pissed that they don\u2019t have it. After this happened, it caused paranoia. There were people who, if they were asked to provide information, would print it out and cut out the names of all the people who worked on it and walk it over to the front office. Because they were like, If they get upset about something that\u2019s in here, we don\u2019t want them to be able to immediately know who to fire.<\/p>\n May 27<\/p>\n Following a memo<\/a> from Todd Lyons, the acting head of ICE, agents increasingly arrested undocumented people who showed up for a hearing in immigration court. The memo said that undocumented family members and friends accompanying the \u201ctarget alien\u201d could also be arrested. ICE also began regularly arresting asylum applicants when they went to a field office for an interview.<\/p>\n Todd Lyons, the acting director of ICE, testifying before a House committee last May, when the agency increased the pace of raids and arrests throughout the country. Anna Moneymaker\/Getty Images<\/p>\n Mimi Tsankov, former immigration judge: For fear of repercussions, people started avoiding exercising their rights by coming to court. But if they fail to appear, they can receive an order for removal.<\/p>\n George D. Pappas, former immigration judge: When ICE officers started entering the courthouse, I was told by my assistant chief judge, Stay out of the way and grant the government\u2019s motion to dismiss the case.<\/p>\n No, I\u2019m not going to do that. Now this person would not have legal status. They would lose their work authorization. They\u2019re susceptible to arrest at any point. We had a duty to give them their day in court.<\/p>\n Jeremiah Johnson, former immigration judge: In one case, I denied the motion to dismiss. It was a 20-year-old Sikh man from India who was seeking asylum based on persecution for his political activism. They arrested him in the hallway outside my courtroom.<\/p>\n Michael Knowles<\/a>, former asylum officer: Asylum offices have always been physically separate from ICE and other enforcement. The idea was to communicate that it\u2019s OK to show up, even if you entered illegally or overstayed your visa, because our job is to ascertain your claim. That\u2019s in the law: Everyone gets a shot.<\/p>\n But ICE was pulling people out of interviews or apprehending them on their way out. Some of them didn\u2019t have criminal records, and there was no warrant out for their arrest. Asylum officers told me that if they finished the interview before ICE arrived, they were told to keep the applicant longer. They were being made part of a setup.<\/p>\n I retired even though I wasn\u2019t ready.<\/p>\n (\u201cAny application for asylum does not preclude immigration enforcement,\u201d Bis, the D.H.S. spokeswoman, wrote. \u201cNothing prohibits arresting a lawbreaker where you find them.\u201d)<\/p>\n \u2018They paused all the refugee applications. I remember a case from Central America of a woman who had been sexually trafficked by her spouse. \u2026 She went into hiding.\u2019<\/p>\n Susan Raufer, supervisory refugee officer and former head of the Newark asylum office<\/p>\n June 6<\/p>\n Protests erupted in Los Angeles in response to a series of immigration sweeps. Border Patrol agents, who rarely operated in cities in the interior of the United States, were redirected to be part of the crackdown. Noem soon deployed Gregory Bovino to lead the surge. Trump posted on Truth Social that other Democratic-led cities would be next: \u201cI want ICE, Border Patrol, and our Great and Patriotic Law Enforcement Officers, to FOCUS on our crime ridden and deadly Inner Cities.\u201d<\/p>\n Protesters occupying Highway 101 in response to the immigration crackdown across Los Angeles last June. Gabriela Bhaskar\/The New York Times<\/p>\n Teresa Pedregon, former deputy chief patrol agent at the northern border: Greg Bovino reported directly to the D.H.S. secretary. He was essentially not even under the chain of command. He doesn\u2019t believe in intelligence-driven operations. That was clear when he was in New Orleans, where I worked with him. He was putting people in gas stations and telling his agents, See how many illegals you can round up. I felt he was auditioning to get Trump\u2019s attention.<\/p>\n (Pedregon sued D.H.S. in 2020 over its personnel practices, alleging, among other claims, that Bovino gave preferential treatment to white male agents in New Orleans. The case was settled out of court two years later.)<\/p>\n Darius Reeves, former ICE field office director in Baltimore: Anytime you engage the Border Patrol in interior enforcement, the wheels are going to fall off. It\u2019s not to disparage them. It\u2019s totally different tactics and totally different training.<\/p>\n Rafael Reyes, former Border Patrol agent in charge in Deming, N.M.: I always told my agents, This is a career, not a crusade. My ancestors, my family, we feared the Border Patrol. That\u2019s the stigma that came with that job. We\u2019ve been struggling for a very long time to move away from the stigma of the mass raids of the 1950s. After 9\/11, we started professionalizing. We evolved from this 9,000-man agency to the largest law enforcement agency in the federal government. Border Patrol is now more than 50 percent Hispanic. Interior enforcement isn\u2019t our responsibility, and we don\u2019t like the blowback that comes from it.<\/p>\n Former D.H.S. executive 1: When Los Angeles happened, they made all these arrests. They\u2019re like, We can\u2019t process them fast enough, so put them on the plane. We had a total of 13 planes that we were using. You can fit roughly 128 people on one of these planes. They didn\u2019t care if a plane flew with three people. The secretary wanted to see 13 planes in the air every day, no matter what. That cost a lot of money.<\/p>\n (Bis, the D.H.S. spokeswoman, disputed these numbers and wrote that \u201cthe operation of a flight with lower numbers can still be more cost effective than the cost of detaining aliens additional days to fill a flight.\u201d)<\/p>\n ICE agent: When people started making comments like, ICE is disappearing people, They\u2019re Nazis, They need to get out \u2014 politicians would even say that \u2014 that empowered people to act more aggressive toward us. Now you\u2019re taking eight, 12, 15 people to arrest one guy. And you\u2019re doing it for safety. But at the same time, when you show up with that amount of people, everything is automatically heightened \u2014 because somebody else looks at it like, Why do you need 15 people for one guy?<\/p>\n June 6<\/p>\n The Trump administration announced that it had ended a longstanding protection from deportation for people 21 and younger who were abused or neglected in their home countries. Without providing evidence, D.H.S. said the program was \u201cinfected with fraud and abuses,\u201d accusing the Biden administration of admitting \u201chundreds of suspected and confirmed adult gang members.\u201d By the end of the year, hundreds of these young people had been detained and deported<\/a>.<\/p>\n Sarah Krieger<\/a>, former policy analyst at U.S.C.I.S.: I led the portfolio for all of these vulnerable young people. One day, I looked at the D.H.S. website, and it says we\u2019re no longer granting them deferred action \u2014 the form of relief that they had. I was like, What? It turned out there was a policy manual update I didn\u2019t know about.<\/p>\n These young people each went in front of a state court judge, who determined that they were abused or neglected and that it\u2019s not in their best interests to return to their home country. They\u2019ve also all gone through security checks.<\/p>\n July 4<\/p>\n Trump signed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which included a spending increase<\/a> of $170 billion for immigration enforcement through 2029. ICE began planning to add more than 100,000 beds, buying at least 20 warehouses<\/a> and converting them into large-scale detention centers. Local opposition derailed<\/a> these plans in several states.<\/p>\n President Trump signed the One Big Beautiful Bill at the White House on July 4. The law tripled the budget for ICE detention and the border wall. Brendan Smialowski\/Agence France-Presse \u2014 Getty Images<\/p>\n D.H.S. attorney: One of the most disappointing experiences I\u2019ve had here is watching career staff who believe this warehouse plan is a disaster \u2014 one that will cause suffering and increased death \u2014 work their hardest to make the plan happen. I\u2019ve really struggled with how to deal with that.<\/p>\n It\u2019s true that for optimizing efficiency, the warehouses make sense. But Fort Bliss in Texas, the closest analogue for the warehouses, is a goddamned nightmare. I went there after it opened. It was planned and built by a company that has zero experience in detention of any kind. It\u2019s a giant tent with partitions, so it\u2019s incredibly loud. You could lose your mind in that cacophony.<\/p>\n Claire Trickler-McNulty, former senior ICE official: In March, a 19-year-old committed suicide at the Glades facility in Florida. That was a facility that we had closed under Biden because it had such persistent problems. They reopened it. They reopened many of the facilities that were closed because of longstanding concerns about conditions.<\/p>\n July 8<\/p>\n The administration adopted<\/a> a broad reading of a landmark 1996 immigration law. In court, ICE would now request detention, without a bond hearing, for almost everyone who entered the country illegally, regardless of whether they had a criminal record. Most District Court judges rejected the administration\u2019s new position, but two appeals courts have ruled in favor of it. The issue is likely to reach the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n Adam Boyd, former ICE attorney: If you have a criminal record, we need to detain you. But when ICE didn\u2019t have the bed space, you could release lower-risk people, let\u2019s say a mom and her kid. We don\u2019t have this idea of discretionary release anymore. You could have been here for 15 years, but you came across the border and didn\u2019t have an admission at the port of entry. You didn\u2019t get a visitor stamp or anything, and you snuck across. Here you are 15 years later, and we are saying we can detain you until the end of your hearings.<\/p>\n Assistant U.S. attorney: Now that Congress has given ICE all this funding for mandatory detention, that allows the Trump administration to interpret this draconian law in a way that hasn\u2019t been done for 30 years.<\/p>\n But that means treating people who have been here for 20 years, and have no criminal record, the same as people who have been here for 20 days. <\/p>\n ICE lawyer: Mandatory detention is the dream of every hard-line anti-immigration activist. This is as big a deal as ending birthright citizenship. If the Trump administration does that, then they have changed immigration law forever. If the Supreme Court signs off on this, it\u2019s effectively saying we don\u2019t do asylum here anymore.<\/p>\n \u2018It\u2019s interesting to see ICE and D.O.J. complaining they\u2019re overwhelmed, but this was their own making.\u2019<\/p>\n Adam Boyd, former ICE attorney<\/p>\n July 29<\/p>\n D.H.S. announced<\/a> a \u201cDefend the Homeland\u201d campaign to increase the number of ICE agents to 20,000 from 10,000, using funds from the One Big Beautiful Bill. The agency offered a $50,000 signing bonus and dropped the minimum age for recruits to 18. The basic training program at the academy was reduced by several weeks.<\/p>\n Ryan Schwank, former ICE attorney: I started as an instructor at the academy in September 2025. On Day 1, we started on Page 70 of the materials, did about 30 pages, then skipped another hundred. It went on like that. The longtime instructors said they used to run practice drills and grade them. They used to do shooting exercises. Now we\u2019re not doing it or we\u2019re not grading it. There are multiple-choice tests, but they\u2019re open-book. They removed most of the practical exams. Before, you had to show you could conduct an arrest at a business, a home and a vehicle stop. If you failed the class, you failed out of the academy. Now there is no grade given, so no one fails a practical exam.<\/p>\n I know there\u2019s a concern that the ICE recruits are white nationalists, and I saw some that fit that concern. But by and large, people were there because they saw an opportunity for a high-paid job in federal law enforcement. A lot of them were first- and second-generation immigrants. There was no indication that the cadets didn\u2019t want to learn. But the way we were rushing them through, they walked out not remotely prepared to do the job.<\/p>\n ICE agent: Every police department has a field training program, where you learn most of your stuff from another decent cop. When I joined ICE a few years ago, I got no field training. It\u2019s overwhelming, because you get out of the academy and it\u2019s: OK, here you go. You start.<\/p>\n Now, you could tell the new guys from their mannerisms or even how they talk when they\u2019re getting ready to go out. They\u2019d have their tac vests with every pouch known to man \u2014 10,000 things on their belt. They haven\u2019t done enough to know you don\u2019t want all that on you while you\u2019re running after somebody or fighting with somebody.<\/p>\n Senior ICE officer: ICE is quickly hiring people with little to no experience and training them on PowerPoint and then giving them a badge and gun. I\u2019m going to be honest with you, there are some really old people and some really out-of-shape people.<\/p>\n (\u201cThis is completely false. Students must meet all requirements, otherwise they will not be made law enforcement officers,\u201d Bis, the D.H.S. spokeswoman, wrote.)<\/p>\n November 20-21<\/p>\n Noem posted an ad<\/a> on X urging people to apply to be a \u201cDeportation Judge.\u201d The next day, five immigration judges were fired in San Francisco, which had a relatively high rate of granting asylum cases. The dismissals brought the total for the year to more than 100. With a backlog of around 3.7 million cases<\/a>, the Trump administration recruited military lawyers to replace the fired judges. The grant rates for asylum have plummeted to the lowest point for which data is available, an analysis by The Times found<\/a>.<\/p>\n Jeremiah Johnson, former immigration judge: On Nov. 21, I heard my afternoon case. It was a family of four Indigenous Guatemalans, a mother and father and two children. They were refugees who had suffered physical abuse. The father\u2019s leg had been broken, and his brother had been killed. They were targeted for their race and ethnicity. They had a fear of persecution, based on past persecution, which the government didn\u2019t rebut.<\/p>\n I granted them asylum. D.H.S. waived the appeal. My last words on the bench to that family were: You\u2019ve been granted asylum in the United States. That decision is final. Welcome to the United States. One of the kids \u2014 I think he was in fifth grade \u2014 jumped up and clapped his hands together.<\/p>\n Later, I went to my office and signed onto my computer and found out I\u2019d been fired. I was escorted out without time to print the letter they sent me.<\/p>\n Early January , 2026<\/p>\n ICE and C.B.P. sent 3,000 agents to Minneapolis under the direction of Bovino. Immigration officers arrested at least 2,300 people in Minnesota that month.<\/p>\n Gregory Bovino, the \u201ccommander at large\u201d of Customs and Border Protection, in Minneapolis in January. Bovino was later removed from his role and retired in March. David Guttenfelder\/The New York Times<\/p>\n ICE agent: People were nervous about getting sent to Minneapolis. I got the notice and had to show up less than a week later. I didn\u2019t want people to know I was with ICE. I even intentionally took one of my wife\u2019s girly suitcases to make it look like I was traveling with a woman. Everyone\u2019s Midwestern nice, so they\u2019re like: Hey, welcome to Minnesota. What brings you to town? I told people I was there to take care of my nephews.<\/p>\n There were protests outside the Whipple Building, which was our operating center. Driving in, I\u2019d try to look straight ahead while I was being cursed out. They would be like: Kill yourself. You\u2019re Nazi trash. I mean, anything you would think of. They\u2019d also protest outside certain hotels and make noise. We\u2019d get messages saying: If you\u2019re at this hotel, just stay in your room. Don\u2019t leave. Guys would book the hotel with their personal credit card instead of their government card because it was safer. One guy put a Harris-Walz sticker on his bags. Another guy put an anti-Trump sticker.<\/p>\n D.H.S. border official: The majority of people were protesting, but a significant number of people crossed the line, which would absolutely negatively impact our ability to get the job done. For example, if you have a child sex offender that you are looking for, and you know where they live, and you\u2019re trying to maintain a discreet presence until you see that person exit a business or exit their house so you can arrest them, but you\u2019re surrounded by a bunch of people honking horns, they\u2019ve effectively blocked that arrest.<\/p>\n Senior ICE officer: We were going around in rental cars arresting people. That was really wild to me. It would trip me out that anyone would pull over to a Nissan Altima with a blue light on it. It doesn\u2019t look legit.<\/p>\n We have no authority to question a United States citizen. And they would do that. I saw officers block someone in, put them in a car, drive away and, once we get to a more secure location, look at the person and say, Oh, shoot, that\u2019s not our target.<\/p>\n January 7-26<\/p>\n During the Minneapolis surge, ICE and Border Patrol agents fatally shot two American citizens, Renee Good and Alex Pretti. Without providing evidence, Noem and other D.H.S. officials said Good and Pretti were to blame by committing acts of domestic terrorism. As criticism of the administration\u2019s tactics in Minneapolis mounted, Tom Homan, Trump\u2019s border czar, replaced Bovino in Minneapolis. <\/p>\n A makeshift memorial in Minneapolis. Victor J. Blue for The New York Times<\/p>\n Senior ICE officer: The Good shooting was cleared by Secretary Noem like within an hour. There should be a real investigation. For lesser-trained officers, that made them think, OK, we can push the limits. You could really see that in the field in the lack of professionalism. ICE was giving us big cans of pepper spray we were never issued before. I know that if I spray someone, that\u2019s a use-of-force incident that needs to be investigated. But all these new people were emptying out their canisters, driving by and spraying the crowd \u2014 no questions asked.<\/p>\n ICE agent: The one thing you\u2019ll always hear cops say is, One bad cop does something, and somehow it becomes a referendum on all cops. It\u2019s the only profession where that happens. You don\u2019t hear that a doctor got drunk and did surgery and killed somebody and have people saying every doctor in America is an [expletive]. We\u2019re being painted with a broad brush. <\/p>\n H.S.I. agent 1: We don\u2019t like working with the Border Patrol agents because they cut corners. They\u2019re reckless and unnecessarily aggressive. And you saw the direct result of that in Minneapolis. The agents who shot Mr. Pretti were C.B.P.<\/p>\n I think the administration realized that what happened in Minnesota was not great. The optics were terrible. So there has been a positive effect in terms of the administration taking a step back from these types of large civil immigration enforcement surges.<\/p>\n Ken Syring, former C.B.P. deputy chief of staff: Some employees are angry at D.H.S. for making prejudicial statements about Good before there was even an investigation. There are others who are really concerned that a loss of legitimacy equals a loss of functionality, and that C.B.P. won\u2019t be able to operate as a law enforcement agency that\u2019s in any way successful after all of this. A lot of them seem to be operational concerns. I haven\u2019t heard many moral concerns.<\/p>\n Senior ICE officer: I think the big difference happened when Homan replaced Bovino in Minneapolis. There were never official quotas, just pressure to produce and a questioning of our tactics if we didn\u2019t arrest. The stress eased up tremendously under Homan.<\/p>\n January 21<\/p>\n The New York Times reported<\/a> on a 2025 memo from Todd Lyons, the acting director of ICE, that said agents could enter homes to arrest people without a warrant from a judge. The next day, James Percival, the general counsel for D.H.S., argued<\/a> in The Wall Street Journal that \u201cillegal aliens aren\u2019t entitled to the same Fourth Amendment protections as U.S. citizens.\u201d<\/p>\n The Supreme Court has never explicitly ruled that the Fourth Amendment applies only to citizens. Six former D.H.S. general counsels and acting general counsels from Republican and Democratic administrations wrote in a guest essay<\/a> for New York Times Opinion: \u201cWe urge the Department of Homeland Security to adhere to the Constitution and end the practice of conducting forcible entry into homes without judicial warrants.\u201d<\/p>\n ICE agents and other law enforcement officers conducting an immigration raid at a home in St. Paul, Minn., in January, days after an agent fatally shot Renee Good. Leah Millis\/Reuters<\/p>\n Ryan Schwank, former ICE lawyer: My supervisors at the academy showed me this memo telling officers they can go into a home using an administrative warrant from D.H.S. instead of a judicial warrant. They say: You can\u2019t keep a copy of the memo. You\u2019re going to teach this to cadets, but we won\u2019t put in writing anywhere that we\u2019re training them on this.<\/p>\n That\u2019s an illegal way to teach. When you train law enforcement officers, everything is in writing. If they ever want to discipline an officer for not following orders, they have to prove they gave the instructions.<\/p>\n I talked to my wife. I said I\u2019d stepped into a bear trap. I needed to report it, but I had to figure out how. Should I go to the Office of the Inspector General or the Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties or the ombudsman? I knew people in those offices who\u2019d lost their jobs. I didn\u2019t think those offices were effective anymore. I found Whistleblower Aid<\/a>, and we made the disclosures.<\/p>\n Former D.H.S. executive 2: That memo is going to reach the Supreme Court and get struck down. They took 40 or 50 years of policy and just disregarded it. Quite frankly, the people who signed that have legal exposure. They better get good lawyers. They need to have discussions about getting a pardon before they leave.<\/p>\n There\u2019s a few unfortunate folks out there who have gone in with administrative warrants, but I\u2019ve heard that it\u2019s hardly ever done because people at ICE understand that it\u2019s incredibly dangerous. People who do it are going to be personally, civilly and criminally liable.<\/p>\n Late January into February <\/p>\n As the number of migrants in detention surged past 73,000 (from fewer than 40,000 when Biden left office), Federal District Courts were flooded with petitions for habeas corpus, a means of challenging imprisonment. District Court judges have ruled against the government in 415 of 450 cases, according to a Politico tracker<\/a>. In hundreds of<\/a> instances, ICE failed to comply with court orders, including by holding people for extended periods after their dates of release. (Bis, the D.H.S. spokeswoman, characterized the orders as \u201cjudicial overreach\u201d and said ICE complies \u201cwhen it receives sufficient notice to do so.\u201d )<\/p>\n Adam Boyd, former ICE attorney: It\u2019s interesting to see ICE and D.O.J. complaining they\u2019re overwhelmed, but this was their own making. If you are going to have tens of thousands of people being detained, you\u2019re going to have a lot more habeases being filed, because you are going against decades of what the policy used to be.<\/p>\n Assistant U.S. attorney: This is a slow-moving train wreck. When D.H.S. sends agents in for these surges and makes all the arrests, they never check with us about whether we can handle the scale of court cases that will follow. And we don\u2019t have the capacity. This isn\u2019t just in a few places. It\u2019s Los Angeles, Chicago, Charlotte, New Orleans and also the rural districts, like in Texas and northern Michigan, with large detention facilities where they ship a lot of people from blue states that don\u2019t allow the jails to house ICE detainees.<\/p>\n ICE lawyer: The average length of detention I\u2019ve seen is around 400 days \u2014 so, over a year. I have never seen anything like this. We\u2019ve got an order from a federal judge saying, Hey, show why this guy\u2019s detained. We\u2019re like, We don\u2019t actually know.<\/p>\n Former assistant U.S. attorney in Colorado: I think a lot of the attorneys defending these cases think they are morally repugnant. I had eight of these cases before I left. One was a DACA recipient who came here years ago and worked in construction. I thought we would let him out because he had a valid DACA application, but no. It just felt terrible. What are we doing and why?<\/p>\n March 3<\/p>\n During a Senate hearing, Noem was asked about a $220 million ad campaign, featuring her on horseback, that urged migrants to self-deport. ProPublica reported<\/a> earlier that D.H.S. awarded a no-bid contract for the campaign to a company that subcontracted with a firm run by the husband of Tricia McLaughlin when she was the director of the D.H.S. Office of Public Affairs. (Bis, the D.H.S. spokeswoman, said that the Office of Public Affairs was \u201csimply the vehicle for this contract\u201d and that McLaughlin, who has since left the department, recused herself from interacting with subcontractors.)<\/p>\n In response to senators\u2019 questions about the ads, Noem said Trump approved them. Trump fired Noem on March 5.<\/p>\n Noem in her $220 million ad campaign at Mount Rushmore in October. Tia Dufour\/DHS<\/p>\n D.H.S. official: They had, without telling anybody, decided to run these ads in Mexico. They ran a commercial in prime time during a soccer game \u2014 the equivalent of \u201cMonday Night Football.\u201d Which just led to outrage in Mexico.<\/p>\n After the ad ran, I heard that the State Department called over to our political leadership and just lit into them. Like: What the hell are you guys doing? Because of the contiguous border, it\u2019s exceptionally important that we maintain good relations with Mexico. We want to deport people there. They were just beyond irritated that whoever made the decision hadn\u2019t cleared it with State.<\/p>\n Kerry Doyle, former chief of ICE\u2019s legal branch and former immigration judge: Noem broke the cardinal rule: Never throw the president under the bus, and never upstage him. I also think the women in this MAGA universe are expendable in a way the men don\u2019t seem to be.<\/p>\n I think they understand it\u2019s bad for their polling and for the midterm elections to be as aggressive as they were. So they\u2019ve stopped saying \u201cmass deportations.\u201d But it\u2019s not a policy change.<\/p>\n March 5<\/p>\n Trump nominated Markwayne Mullin, a Republican senator from Oklahoma, to succeed Noem as secretary of homeland security. At his confirmation hearing, Mullin signaled a willingness to reconsider some of the agency\u2019s most aggressive tactics. He has also privately supported an investigation by the D.H.S. inspector general into how Noem and Lewandowski handled contracts, The Times reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n The pace of daily arrests has dropped<\/a> since January, but Stephen Miller has remained committed to his larger goals. \u201cEveryone involved in the asylum system knows and understands the claims are all fake,\u201d he wrote on X in April<\/a>.<\/p>\n Markwayne Mullin succeeded Noem as Trump\u2019s new secretary of homeland security. Heather Diehl\/Getty Images<\/p>\n ICE lawyer: Some of the ICE agents who lean MAGA cannot wait for this administration to be done. I know the guys are tired. For the first time this month, I am hearing guys questioning what they\u2019re being asked to do. They\u2019ve had a year now of people spitting on their feet and constantly calling them pigs and fascists, even when they\u2019re just standing there at the airport. It\u2019s having a real impact on people.<\/p>\n Former D.H.S. executive 1: The people that are working don\u2019t disagree with strong enforcement, consequences and deterrence. But you don\u2019t have to go about it looking so unhinged. It\u2019s causing huge problems and creating distrust in law enforcement, in ICE especially. I don\u2019t know if we can come back from this.<\/p>\n D.H.S. attorney: The ultimate goal of this administration is nothing less than deporting every immigrant it possibly can by the end of the term while shutting down incoming legal immigration other than rich people they want and white South Africans. The whole D.H.S. project needs to be viewed in those terms: as forcing a mass exodus and shutdown of the entire U.S. immigration system.<\/p>\n Kerry Doyle, former chief of ICE\u2019s legal branch and former immigration judge: I\u2019m heartened that Mullin sounded conciliatory at his confirmation hearing, but it\u2019s hard to know what that will mean. The people driving these policies are still very much in the administration. 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