Denied, detained, deported: the most high-profile cases in Trump’s immigration crackdown

These are some of the people ensnared by the administration's unprecedented measures to target people it believes oppose its agenda

Donald Trump retook the White House vowing to stage the largest deportation operation in American history". As previewed, the administration has set about further militarizing the US-Mexico border and targeting asylum seekers and refugees while conducting raids and deportations in undocumented communities, detaining and deporting immigrants and spreading fear.

Critics are outraged, if not surprised. But few expected the new legal chapter that unfolded next: a multipronged crackdown on certain people seen as opponents of the US president's ideological agenda. This extraordinary assault has come in the context of wider attacks on higher education, the courts and the constitution.