Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Americans were horrified when federal immigration agents killed Renée Good and Alex Pretti in Minneapolis earlier this year. Donald Trump responded by firing his border-patrol head and homeland-security adviser. Their replacements have sought to keep his mass-deportation drive out of the headlines, but behind the scenes it has grown more effective than ever.

Edward Carr, The Economist’s deputy editor, joins a panel of our top editors to examine President Trump’s latest immigration crackdown and how it's changing America.

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00:00 - How Donald Trump has stopped illegal migration
01:58 - The removal of temporary protected status
04:24 - What’s happening to legal migration?
07:01 - The impact of Trump’s crackdown on America

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