Six months of 'shock and awe' on immigration enforcement

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🗓️ 23 July 2025

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Summary

Since returning to office, President Trump has moved swiftly to upend decades of federal policy—from education to healthcare to vaccines...but nowhere more aggressively than immigration.

Congress just passed tens of billions in funding for immigration enforcement...It's the largest domestic enforcement funding in U.S. history, fueling Trump's mass deportation campaign of migrants living in the U.S. illegally.

President Trump campaigned for office promising the largest deportation in history.

Six months into his second term, how has immigration enforcement changed.

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0:00.0	I got three words for him.
0:02.4	Jock and all.
0:04.5	Jack and all.
0:05.8	I love it.
0:06.2	You're going to see us take this country back.
0:08.8	Shock and awe.
0:10.6	That is how Tom Homan kicked off the Trump administration's second-term approach to deportations.
0:16.5	This was on Donald Trump Jr.'s podcast the week after President Trump recaptured the White House.
0:21.7	And since then, the Trump administration's aggressive moves on immigration enforcement have been pretty heavy on spectacle.
0:29.3	Like with the migrant detention facility in Florida that the White House is calling alligator Alcatraz.
0:34.8	We have a lot of bodyguards and a lot of cops that are in the form of alligators.
0:39.7	You're not to pay them so much.
0:41.3	But I wouldn't want to run through the Everett Lades for long.
0:45.0	We'll keep people where they're supposed to be.
0:47.4	Then there are the reality TV style ride-alongs with federal agents out on raids.
0:53.6	Here's Homeland Security Secretary
0:54.9	Christy Noem back in January. Here in New York City this morning, we're getting the
0:59.0	dirt banks off these streets. Dr. Phil went out on one, too. The administration seems to be
1:04.7	signaling not only that it's cracking down on immigration, but also that it's enjoying it. Back in February, the White House
1:13.2	X account posted a video with the caption, ASMR. But while most ASMR videos feature pleasant,
1:22.9	soothing sounds, this one showed immigrants being shackled and loaded onto a plane.
1:34.5	Consider this. President Trump campaigned for office promising the largest deportation
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