Border Patrols: Policing Immigration in America

Published: March 10, 2017, 5 p.m.

President Donald Trump recently announced his plans to crackdown on undocumented immigration. In his first address to Congress, the president claimed: \u201cWe are removing gang members, drug dealers and criminals that threaten our communities and prey on our very innocent citizens. Bad ones are going out as I speak.\u201d
\nCoupled with his second attempt at a travel ban from Muslim-majority countries and his promise to build a border wall, the president and his team are focusing the nation\u2019s attention on who gets in and who the government will kick out.
\nIn the second episode of our two-part series on immigration, we explore how the federal government monitors and polices the undocumented. We\u2019ll consider the origins of illegal immigration, as well as how the government\u2019s deportation powers have grown over time.
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