The second Trump administration has significantly ramped up immigration enforcement, putting pressure on federal, state, and local agencies to meet the president’s deportation goals.

"They’re not focusing on particular people, they're focusing on particular traits," said attorney Homero López, a former immigration judge. "Those traits tend to be physical in nature.”

Most of the attention on President Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement agenda has focused on one agency: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which signed partnerships with hundreds of regional law enforcement groups and has drawn the ire of protesters nationwide.

In Norristown, immigration advocates urged all 62 municipalities in Montgomery County to enshrine policies that would limit police and local government cooperation with ICE.

The operations were launched a day after President Donald Trump said he’d be sending National Guard troops to New Orleans and disparaged Somali immigrants in Minneapolis.

A Republican sheriff and staunch immigration opponent, who is currently the leading candidate for the California governor's race, just lost in a significant lawsuit.

A woman wearing medical scrubs was forcibly removed from her car by federal immigration agents in Key Largo, Florida, footage shows. During the incident, which occurred on Wednesday morning, the woman could be heard shouting that she was a U.S. citizen as agents detained her.

U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis on Thursday did not yet grant a motion to dismiss that class action lawsuit, brought forth this week by the plaintiffs themselves.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Trump administration officials overseeing the immigration crackdown launched this week in New Orleans are aiming to make 5,000 arrests with a focus on violent offenders, a target that some city leaders say is not realistic.

A federal judge on Thursday said she was "struggling" to understand why President Donald Trump's administration is preventing a Tufts University PhD student who had engaged in pro-Palestinian activism from working on campus nearly seven months after the Turkish citizen was released from an immigration detention center.