These devastating photos show the chaos of Trump’s mass deportation campaign in 2025 |
On day one of Donald Trump’s second term as president, he issued a wave of executive orders to radically expand the enforcement of immigration law. It was the first step toward Trump’s promise to carry out mass deportations—the “largest,” he pledged, in the country’s history.
What followed, throughout 2025, was an aggressive campaign that included Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids at workplaces such as farms; the deployment of National Guard units in cities like Chicago and Los Angeles; and a Supreme Court ruling that cleared the way for racial profiling during immigration enforcement.
These actions played out in stark images that have come to define Trump’s immigration agenda: scenes of federal agents—often with masks covering their faces—tackling people inside courthouses, or protesters gathering en masse to face off against National Guard members.
Getty Images photographers captured many of those scenes.........