As ICE ramps up for more deportations under President Trump, Nicholas Nehamas, a Washington correspondent for The New York Times, talks with applicants at an ICE recruitment fair in Texas.

What comes next?

What comes next?

The president, who has targeted collective bargaining contracts for nearly one million government employees, has said their functions touch on national security.

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President Trump has cut hundreds of thousands of jobs from the federal work force, disproportionately affecting Black employees.

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Even low-level government employees like elementary school teachers and nurses have been ordered to hand in their passports, to enforce “discipline.”