It's Sunday, May 17th, the execution of Donald Trump's mass deportation program has been brutal, violent, and deeply unpopular.

The American public, you and me, we've borne witness to a procession of horrifying videos

of neighbors being mistreated by newly emboldened federal forces in mass sweeps. Now there's a way to quantify the government's overreach.

A team of journalists and political led by the senior legal affairs reporter there, Kyle Cheney,

has been following and analyzing the thousands of lawsuits that have been filed against government officials by immigrants who have been detained by ICE.

They created a database of those cases, and the findings from their analysts are stark.

There have been 11,600 lawsuits filed between July of last year and now.

The Trump administration has prevailed in about 1,200 of those cases, which means, this is just

basic Sunday morning math. Judges ruled against the Trump administration in 10,400 cases, roughly 90% of all the

lawsuits reviewed by Politico. Now, what's legal and what's not? The law does grant the president

broad discretion to determine how to carry out the mission of immigration enforcement.

But it does not give him unilateral authority to detain or deport whomever he wants.

There are still, believe it or not, some guardrails in place.

There are some laws that protect individual rights, including the rights of the so-called undocumented.

I want to get into that term a little bit. Other news outlets call them illegal.

We don't call them illegal, but now I'm thinking maybe undocumented doesn't even really

get you to the point. And I'll tell you why in a minute. There are procedures that the government must follow

when there is somebody who claims asylum

or tries to become an immigrant to this country.

The procedures are there to ensure that the rights are protected.

But the court records that Politico studied

revealed that the Trump administration's approach

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