The Trump administration significantly expanded immigration enforcement operations beginning in 2025, deporting over 2,000 individuals including Southeast Asian refugees and resuming deportation flights to Iran after decades without such transfers. By early 2026, the administration had conducted at least 78 deportation flights to Venezuela and three flights to Iran, while detaining approximately 15,000 additional individuals for deportation. Among those affected was Hai Nguyen, a Vietnamese refugee detained based on an expunged nonviolent conviction, and two 12-year-old U.S. citizen twins who were wrongfully deported to Guatemala during their mother's ICE appointment and returned the same day after a federal judge ruled the deportation unlawful.