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Donald Trump won the presidency in part on promises to deport undocumented immigrants with criminal records. But his earliest executive orders—trying to undo birthright citizenship, suspending critical refugee programs—made clear he wants to attack legal immigrants, too. In our new series, Who Gets to Be American This Week?, we’ll track the Trump administration’s attempts to exclude an ever-growing number of people from the American experiment. 

In Donald Trump’s first 100 days in office, his administration grabbed headlines for going to extremes on deportations—targeting students and permanent residents, and invoking a 200-year-old law to rush migrants out of the country without due process and send them to a Salvadoran prison.

All this might lead you to think he’s following through on his campaign promise to deport millions of undocumented immigrants from the U.S.

But the administration isn’t carrying out deportations on anything close to the scale it promised, according to some think tanks that analyzed available immigration data for the president’s first 100 days in office. And the scramble to boost Trump’s deportation numbers seems to be pushing immigration officials to get sloppy; they’ve removed multiple children who are U.S. citizens from the country in recent weeks. But true to form, the Trump administration is hoping the Supreme Court will come to its rescue. Will a monarchical court allow a monarchical executive branch to continue lawless deportations?

Here’s the immigration news we’re keeping an eye on this week:

Trump Isn’t Doing What He Promised on Deportations 

The Trump administration is aiming to deport 1 million immigrants this year, according to the Washington Post—and despite the administration’s extreme, lawless methods, a look at the numbers........

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