From the New York Times, I'm Rachel Abrams.

This is the Daily.

Since taking office, President Trump's plan to deport millions of undocumented people keeps running into new barriers,

and it's forced the White House to come up with more and more creative solutions

to fulfill his promise.

Today, my colleagues Julie Turkowitz and Hamid Ali Aziz

on one of the more innovative and controversial solutions so far.

It's Monday, February 24th.

Julie, we've had you on the show before talking about immigration, which obviously is a huge

priority for President Trump. In his first week alone, he suspended the asylum program at the

southern border. He pledged that no new people would enter the country. And on top of all of that, he suspended the asylum program at the southern border. He pledged that no new people

would enter the country. And on top of all of that, he also pledged to deport millions of people

who were already here, which is a huge and complicated thing to undertake. So can you just tell us,

what have we seen so far? And what does that say about how the government has begun tackling this issue?

So President Trump has this major challenge, which is that his administration wants to deport a lot of people and wants to deport them quickly.

But there are some people from some countries that it is very difficult for the United States to send

back to their homelands. For example, the U.S. does not have good relationships with some

countries, and so this makes deportations hard. And so what the Trump administration has done

in these past few weeks is convince other countries, specifically

countries in Central America, to accept deportees who come from a totally different part of the

world, Africa, Asia, the Middle East. And this is a crucial development that could allow the Trump administration

to expand and speed up deportation. And earlier this month, my colleagues and I actually got to see

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