As the Trump administration appears to shift its sweeping mass deportation agenda, rattled immigration hardliners warn the move could become a midterm liability. Major conservative groups are pushing President Donald Trump to make 2026 the year he shifts his mass deportation agenda into overdrive.

The Journal reported that Trump expressed to top advisers to adopt a new approach focused on arresting “bad guys” and reducing visible “chaos” in cities, reflecting concerns from conversations with his advisers and the first lady that the term “mass deportation” turned off voters, according to people familiar with the matter.

An average of 50 U.S. citizen children have a parent detained by immigration authorities each day, according to ProPublica

Former President Donald Trump has pledged to deport millions of undocumented migrants, a plan modeled after a 1954 operation that historians say ultimately did not work.

The order allows President Donald Trump's administration to continue third-country deportations while the appeal proceeds.

“There has been a lot of talk in Congress and now in the White House about kind of backing away from President Trump’s, candidate Trump’s, mass deportation promise,” said Rosemary Jenks, co-founder of the Immigration Accountability Project, which argues for deportations.

The EU continues to tighten migration policies after right-wing parties took power in some countries in 2024. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, from the center-right European

The Supreme Court announced Monday it will decide whether President Donald Trump can terminate temporary deportation protections for hundreds of thousands of foreign nationals, agreeing to hear arguments next month on an issue that has been central to the administration’s immigration agenda.

The Trump administration slashed protections for military members, but the military still touts benefits in recruitment.

The Trump administration has ramped up enforcement against immigrant service members and their families in its wider crackdown.