A Former ICE Chief of Staff on How Trump’s Enforcement Push Is Backfiring

Three days after Donald Trump’s second inauguration, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt declared an early accomplishment: the arrest, and deportation, of hundreds of immigrants she alleged were convicted of crimes. “We’re getting the bad, hard criminals out,” Trump told reporters the next day. This has been the refrain from all corners of the administration. On multiple […]