How Trump is remaking one agency to aid his deportation push

A woman clutches a U.S. flag as she and applicants from 20 countries prepare to take an oath of citizenship in commemoration of Independence Day during a naturalization ceremony in San Antonio in July 2025.

The Trump administration's changes to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services are taking an axe to the agency's traditional mission of ensuring people lawfully immigrate and stay in the U.S.

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