Just one piece of Trump's plan, the Laken Riley Act, would require at least $26.9 billion to ramp up capacity at immigrant detention facilities to add 110,000 beds.

In this op-ed two organizers explain how immigration activists and allies are mobilizing against the Trump administration's plans.

Some of them were murderers. Some of them were rapists. Some of them raped a child. Some sexually assaulted a child,’ the border czar said.

The Trump administration has moved with lightning speed to roll out the president’s immigration agenda, effectively closing off the US southern border to asylum seekers, severely limiting who’s eligible to enter the United States and laying the groundwork to swiftly deport migrants already in the country.