In the first hours of his presidency, Donald Trump acted swiftly on immigration.

All illegal entry will immediately be halted, and we will begin the process of returning millions

and millions of criminal aliens back to the places from which they came.

Trump signed numerous executive orders restricting legal immigration into the U.S.

and giving him more authority to crack down on illegal immigration.

At a high level, what is the goal of this new Trump administration vis-a-vis immigration?

I would say the goal is severalfold.

It really stems from Trump's really central campaign promise to do a mass deportation.

That's our colleague, Michelle Hackman.

During the campaign, you saw Trump almost use immigration as a catch-all.

You know, immigration is the source of all of your problems.

That's economic and nationalist.

It's, you know, your house price is going up because there's so many more immigrants in the country.

Crime is going up because of immigrants. You know, we're having problem in school because these

immigrants are coming and they're not learning English. So it's a whole range of economic and

cultural complaints that Trump, I would argue, pretty successfully connected to immigration.

And we are in the very, very early days of this new Trump administration.

What's most interesting to you in what we've seen so far?

They have issued a startlingly large number of executive orders, even smaller sort of memos at the agency

level changes that to me suggest this has been an administration in waiting for the last four

years that has been really ready to go. I mean, changes that would normally take weeks, months,

even a couple years to implement,

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