Catch and Release Out the Door

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/06/us/politics/trump-immigration-policy.html

Catch and Release is the practice by which immigrants presenting themselves at the border without authorization are released from detention while waiting for their cases to be processed. They claim that it is not made to toughen up immigration policies it is just meant to end the catch and release practices. This memo comes as President Trump orders the National Guard to patrol the southwestern border, in this move he deployed 4,000 troops to the border. It was meant to push administration to move more rapidly in cracking down on unauthorized immigrants at the border. 

"Zero Tolerance" On Immigration

https://www.texastribune.org/2018/04/06/feds-order-border-prosecutors-adopt-zero-tolerance-policy-immigration/

U.S. Attorney General Geff Sessions ordered federal prosecutors on the southwest border to adopt a "zero tolerance" for anybody who has tried or is trying to enter this country illegally. Geff Sessions said "To those who wish to challenge the Trump Administration’s commitment to public safety, national security, and the rule of law, I warn you: illegally entering this country will not be rewarded, but will instead be met with the full prosecutorial powers of the Department of Justice to the Department’s prosecutors, I urge you: promoting and enforcing the rule of law is vital to protecting a nation, its borders, and its citizens". The reason that Sessions gives for his comments is that he wants to minimize the "illegality" of the immigration system. In other words he wants people to come to the United States the legal way but little does he know that the legal way does not exactly work out the way everybody thinks it does.
 It is sad that so many people think coming to this country by obtaining a travel visa or any other form of "legal" paperwork should be the first option but what they do not know is that it takes a lot of money to do so. I personally have witnessed somebody try to obtain a visa and have helped fund the process; it is not cheap. We paid around $300 just for the application and the meeting, $100 to get a passport (Mexican of course), $200-400 for travel (you have to travel to an embassy for the interview). All of that money just to get turned down. People do not see that side of it, if you do not have somebody in the United States helping you pay for it there is no way you could fund it unless you come from a well off family. 

ICE Raids in Tennessee

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/04/06/ice-arrests-97-suspected-illegal-immigrants-at-tennessee-meat-processing-plant.html

ICE went to a meat packing plant in the state of Tennessee and arrested 97 people of being suspected illegal immigrants. They said it is the "largest crackdown at a single place in almost a decade". 97 people were taken into custody from Southeastern Provision meat processing plant in Tennessee. The article says that 11 people were arrested on criminal charges 54 were placed in detention and 32 were released. It is said that they were all arrested for being suspected of being illegal, as mentioned before. The Federal Government has not commented on the suspicion of this being the largest ICE raid since the George W. Bush Presidency.