The Trump administration is powering ahead with efforts to ramp up immigration enforcement, opening up the possibility of targeting migrants who entered through Biden-era programs and invoking an obscure immigration statute to make it easier to deputize state and local law enforcement to arrest and detain immigrants in the U.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security memo provides guidance for the use of a fast-track deportation process that the Trump administration reinstated earlier this week, suggesting officers focus on migrants who failed to request asylum within a one-year deadline after arriving in the U.

The far-reaching move empowers federal immigration agencies to target a population of migrants who came to the U.S. with the government's permission.

U.S. President Donald Trump told global business leaders on Thursday they should manufacture products in the United States to avoid import tariffs and enjoy low tax rates.

President Trump is moving forward with his immigration crackdown. MSNBC legal correspondent Lisa Rubin and our NBC News correspondents Priscilla Erin McLaughlin, Priscilla Thompson and Julia Ainsley join Ana Cabrera to report the latest.

As the Trump administration ramped up its immigration crackdown, officials said 538 undocumented immigrants were arrested on Thursday and two U.S. military planes flew deported migrants to Guatemala.