A revealing, news driven account of the Trump Administration's mass deportation program, featuring never-before-told stories and behind-the-scenes reporting from NBC News' Senior Homeland Security Correspondent. In Undue Process, NBC's Senior Homeland Security correspondent Julia Ainsley takes us inside the Trump White House to expose how Stephen Miller, Kristi Noem, Tom Homan, and other virulently anti-immigration hardliners and extremists are executing the administration's mass deportation plan, seemingly prioritizing spectacle and punishment over security and legal rights and constraints. On every page, Undue Process offers fresh reporting on topics including:How initially low deportation numbers frustrated Trump and sent the administration to more extreme and high-spectacle operations, including deporting immigrants to Guantanamo and a brutal mega-prison in El Salvador, and the creation of increasingly provocative measures like detaining immigrants in Alligator Alcatraz and sending the military to Los Angeles.
How Trump's promise of deporting “only the worst criminals” has proven patently untrue and how the administration is shredding the US Constitution and ignoring and challenging court orders—with help from the Supreme Court.
How government contractors are pitching extreme ideas based on racist theories to win the White House's attention and federal dollars.
The efforts to divert the press from the truth that Trump's promise of mass deportation was falling flat in the first 100 days—and that his administration deported fewer people than his predecessor, Joe Biden.
The secret and extralegal tactics of ICE agents who were told to profile immigrants in order to arrest first and ask questions later in order to boost numbers. Brimming with revelations from sources within ICE and the Department of Homeland Security, Undue Process is a harrowing chronicle of how the Trump administration aimed to create a process “like Amazon Prime, but with human beings”—only to construct a dehumanizing, chaotic system that will be challenged in the courts for years to come.
