Trump isn’t talking about deportations, but they’re still happening
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🗓️ 15 May 2026
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Summary
Back in February, support for President Trump’s mass deportation policy had plummeted. Two thirds of Americans polled by NPR said immigration enforcement had gone too far after agency officers killed two American citizens in Minneapolis.
The Trump administration has spent the past several months trying to regain public support ahead of the upcoming midterm elections.
But what has actually changed about the policy?
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| 0:00.0 | It's consider this, where every day we go deep on one big news story. |
| 0:05.4 | Today, the state of the Trump administration's immigration policy. |
| 0:09.3 | It was his signature campaign promise. |
| 0:11.9 | Here's all we're going to do. |
| 0:13.4 | It's going to be called a Trump mass deportation because we have no choice. |
| 0:18.1 | Once in office, federal agents fanned out across the country and implementation began. |
| 0:24.3 | The Department of Homeland Security says Operation Midway Blitz is underway in Chicago. |
| 0:29.4 | Then came January 2026 when ICE and Border Patrol agents were deployed to Minneapolis. |
| 0:36.1 | Tensions are high in Minneapolis today, a day after an ICE agent shot and killed 37-year-old |
| 0:42.2 | Renee Good as she sat in her car. On Saturday, immigration officers shot dead Alex Prettie, |
| 0:47.5 | a 37-year-old U.S. citizen protesting the ICE operation. |
| 0:50.6 | The shootings seem to turn the public against the administration's immigration strategy. |
| 0:55.9 | That's what an NPR PBS News Marist poll found in February. |
| 0:59.5 | Two-thirds say federal law enforcement agents have gone too far. That's up significantly since last |
| 1:04.3 | summer. 61% disapprove of ICE immigration and customs enforcement. And 62% think ICE is making Americans less safe. |
| 1:12.6 | And it didn't take long before Department of Homeland Security Secretary Christy Noem was fired |
| 1:17.8 | and new leadership came in. Since then, immigration has largely been out of the headlines, |
| 1:23.5 | but that doesn't mean deportations have stopped. Here's White House Borders'ar Tom Homan. |
| 1:28.6 | We're going to continue with this mission. |
| 1:30.4 | We're not giving an inch. |
| 1:31.8 | We're going to enforce laws of this country without apology. |
| 1:36.3 | Consider this. |
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