Welcome to all of you to The Beat. I am Katie Fang in for Ari Melburgh. Donald Trump's first week

back in office and it's been full of twists and turns with signs that Trump is attempting to make

good on his campaign promises. Trump launching his mass deportation plan, sending 1,500 active duty

troops to the United States-Mexico border to assist border

patrol agents. And the White House press secretary claiming that deportation flights are now in

effect, sharing images of a military aircraft transporting about 80 migrants from El Paso, Texas,

to Guatemala this morning.

The Department of Defense releasing this image from inside of a military deportation flight out of Tucson, Arizona. ICE reporting 538 arrests were made yesterday across the United States,

165 of them being non-criminal arrest.

Now, we should note that these numbers are relatively modest for a so-called ICE surge and are lower than when Trump first took office in 2017.

But local officials are still preparing for an uphill battle.

Raids already happening in sanctuary cities. Federal agents

seen entering homes in Boston. And surveillance footage attained by WNBC showing ICE agents outside

of a Newark, New Jersey fish market where an immigration raid took place yesterday. Newark's mayor saying

United States citizens, including a veteran,

were unlawfully detained alongside undocumented immigrants

without any warrants being present.

The problem with it is that ICE went in there without a warrant.

We can disagree about whether you support mass deportation

or not. But what we must agree on is that the thing that separates this country from many other

countries around the world is the Constitution of the United States.

Joining me now is Jason Johnson, politics professor with Morgan State University and an MSNBC political analyst.

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