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Trump's day one: mass deportations?

Mass deportations was the single biggest talking point of U.S. president-elect Donald Trump's campaign. Vox senior political reporter Nicole Narea talks to host Jayme Poisson about what his second term’s immigration policies might look like.
Two men in baseball caps and uniforms pick up a long piece of wood beside a long and high wall.
FILE - U.S. Border Patrol agents pick up a ladder that migrants carried to the border wall near the port of entry in Hidalgo, Texas, Thursday, May 4, 2023. A recent surge of migrants in the Brownsville area of the U.S.-Mexico border is highlighting immigration challenges as the U.S. prepares for the end of a policy linked to the coronavirus pandemic that allowed it to quickly expel many migrants. (AP Photo/Veronica G. Cardenas, File) (Veronica Cardenas/The Associated Press)

In the past week, U.S. president-elect Donald Trump has announced many members of his upcoming cabinet, giving a window into his second term's priorities.

There's little known about the wider implications of these appointments, but one area that Trump has emphasized as a "day one" priority is immigration.

This was Trump's single biggest talking point throughout his presidential campaign, and heading into a second term, it's a clear policy priority.

Nicole Narea is a senior reporter covering politics and immigration at Vox. She'll go through what the next four years of American immigration policy could look like.

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