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FEATURING MIRIAN ALBERT - Federal immigration enforcement agents have gone on an arresting spree aimed at immigrants across the United States on orders from Donald Trump, who ran for President on an anti-immigrant platform. So far agents have struck fear into communities, arresting hundreds of people in cities including New York, Phoenix, and even fire-stricken Los Angeles. 

In an indication that such actions are for political value, agents report being told they must be “camera-ready” when making arrests. Leaders of Navajo Nation in Arizona and New Mexico report Indigenous Americans being detained and questioned as well. 

Among the firehose of executive orders Trump signed when he took office is an order to end birthright citizenship - the guarantee that being born in the U.S. makes one a U.S. citizen. Amid a slew of lawsuits against the order, a federal judge has temporarily halted its implementation. 

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