section_path: Second presidency (2025–present)/Immigration, 2025–present
section_name: Immigration, 2025–present
paragraph_text: Immigration, 2025–present
  
  In his first days in office, Trump instructed border patrol agents to summarily deport migrants crossing the border, disabled the CBP One app that was being used to schedule border crossings, resumed the remain in Mexico policy, designated drug cartels as terrorist groups, and ordered construction to be resumed on a border wall.
  
  Deportation operations first focused on "target lists" of criminals formed prior to Trump's second term. Then his administration removed asylum applicants who failed to meet requirements, revoked the parole status of migrants who entered the U.S. under CBP One and CHNV humanitarian parole, attempted to remove birthright citizenship, and suspended the Refugee Admissions Program. In March, he used the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to imprison migrants without trial —one by "administrative error" and most without criminal records —at the Terrorism Confinement Center in El Salvador. He targeted activists, legal immigrants, tourists, and students with visas who expressed criticism of his policies or pro-Palestinian advocacy. In April, the administration and DOGE declared about 6,300 living immigrants dead in Social Security's Death Master File, hoping that this would cause them to "self deport".