This is the Daily Blast from the New Republic, produced and presented by the DSR Network.

I'm your host, Greg Sargent.

President Trump is significantly escalating his efforts to foment fear among the nation's immigrants.

The administration just arrested and is moving to deport Mahmood Khalil for being a suspected terrorist sympathizer,

even though he has a green card and an American wife.

And at Tuesday's media briefing, White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt dropped an ominous hint,

suggesting that this effort is only just beginning.

She also suggested pressure on universities to hand over such students is about to intensify in a big way. Meanwhile, the other day we learned that Trump is moving

to require all non-citizens over the age of 14 to register with the government. All these

things interlock with each other. The goal is to spread terror and get non-citizens to do what's known as self-deport.

Today we're talking about all this with Representative Pramilla Jayapal, an influential progressive in the House Democratic Caucus.

We're going to discuss some news as well about a new bill that she's introducing that could challenge some of these Trump efforts.

Thanks for coming on, Congresswoman.

Thank you for having me, Greg.

I want to start with your news here.

Trump has recently announced that he plans to require all non-citizens to register with

the federal government and get fingerprinted or potentially face prosecution.

You're introducing a bill Wednesday that would

counter that. Can you talk about your idea? Yes, absolutely. So I am introducing the No Roundup Act,

and this is a piece of legislation that repeals this long dormant immigration law that Donald Trump

is using to fuel his cruel and inhumane mass

deportation campaign. This is the same law that came out of World War II. It was used for the

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