Since he returned to the White House, President Trump has ramped up government efforts to make good on one of his signature campaign promises, a nationwide crackdown on illegal immigration to start what he calls, quote, the biggest mass deportation in U.S. history.

By the time, the sun sets tomorrow evening, the invasion of our borders will have come to a halt, and all the illegal

border trespassers will in some form or another be on their way back home.

Immigration raids are up all across the country in places like Los Angeles, New York City,

and even Puerto Rico. Tens of thousands of people have been apprehended, resulting in overcrowding as well as shortages in medicine and food and various detention centers.

What we're seeing is this really big push to detain, detain, detain, and the number of deportations can't keep up.

That's NPR correspondent Jasmine Garz.

She's been reporting on immigrants and communities most impacted by these raids.

And she's also been speaking with people held in those detention centers who were experiencing that overcrowding after record numbers of arrest by ICE, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency.

Garz says one trend that she has been keeping a close eye on is children who have been separated

from their parents.

So many of them are American citizens.

I'm encountering a whole generation of young Americans who are suddenly having to not just

fend for themselves, but become heads of household because mom or dad or both is gone.

When we spoke, she was about to return to Florida for another reporting trip.

It is a state guards has returned to repeatedly over the past few months.

She says it's the key to understanding what the future of immigration enforcement may look like.

Florida, to me, is like this sort of laboratory for immigration policy. It's kind of ground

zero for immigration enforcement. In my experience, what happens in Florida is going to happen

nationwide later on in the Trump administration. And that's why I keep going back.

Consider this. Florida is a state that has been defined by immigration over the past 60 years.

Now people there are getting a firsthand look at the Trump administration's most aggressive immigration enforcement tactics.

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