US President Donald Trump campaigned for a second term promising an unprecedented deportation campaign. Over the past 15 months, he has delivered on that pledge through the use of masked agents inside courthouses and heavily armed paramilitaries on American streets. The administration has sharply increased the number of people detained for allegedly being in the US illegally, and generated thousands of claims of civil rights violations in the process. Three US citizens have been shot dead by federal agents and dozens of detainees have died in federal custody amid conditions that, in some cases, have been condemned as inhumane.
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