The rush of moves are meant to secure aid for migrants who are facing US President-elect Donald Trump’s promise to carry out “the largest deportation operation” in the nation’s history. The Mexican president’s efforts have taken off in the days and weeks since Trump threatened to impose economically debilitating tariffs on his southern neighbor — the flow of migrants being a bargaining chip,

Trump, who takes his oath of office Monday morning, campaigned on promises to deport the roughly 11 million immigrants living in the United States illegally.

The incoming administration will need to clear a number of hurdles to enact its plan, immigration experts said.

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis said Donald Trump’s plans to impose mass deportations of immigrants would be a “disgrace,” as he weighed in on the incoming U.S. president’s pledges nearly a decade after calling him “not Christian” for wanting to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexican border.

The pope’s comments provided the latest indication of a potential rekindling of frictions between the Vatican and the next Trump White House.

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), a fiscal hawk, agreed to support President-elect Donald Trump's mass deportation plan "no matter what the cost." During a Sunday interview on Meet the Press, host Kristen Welker noted that mass deportations could cost the American taxpayer "trillions" of dollars.