Immigration Policy & Enforcement - The Trump administration's immigration policies are leading to family separations, including cases where children are separated from their parents after routine ICE check-ins [1][5][8] - Critics accuse the administration of using children as pawns and engaging in mass deportations disguised as family separations [1][11] - The current administration's actions are being compared to historical policies, such as Dwight D Eisenhower's deportation of approximately 1 million Mexicans and Mexican-Americans [12] Community Response & Legal Rights - Communities are protesting family separations and demanding answers from the government [1] - Legal experts and city officials are advising immigrants on their rights, including the right to remain silent and the need for a judicial warrant for ICE to enter private spaces [16][17] - Organizations are conducting training sessions to educate people about their rights and how to respond to ICE encounters [19][20] Detention & Deportation Trends - Approximately 70,000 people without criminal records have been detained, despite attempting to comply with the administration's requirements [15] - There are concerns that increased detentions and deportations are occurring, particularly during the holiday season [14] - During the first Trump administration, 5,500 children were deliberately separated from their parents at the border [10]

If Donald Trump's political power lies in being able to convince his supporters of anything and everything, then loud public dissent from inside his coalition, from prominent MAGA influencers, might be the thing that will melt his carefully crafted alternative fact-based reality faster than the wicked witch in the Wizard of Oz. And that is exactly what is starting to happen with his brutal and ugly and clunky and wildly unpopular mass deportation scheme. The sight and the sound and the smells of heavily arm ...