Trump and his top immigration aides have repeatedly said they are focusing on deporting "the worst of the worst" — people with violent criminal convictions. But the cases on Long Island underscore a national trend: Authorities are sweeping up many immigrants without prior criminal records or with misdemeanor offenses.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials will be given access to the personal data of the nation’s 79 million Medicaid enrollees, including home addresses and ethnicities, to track down immigrants who may not be living legally in the United States,

The memo instructs ICE employees on how to deport people to countries other than their country of origin, in some cases in as little as six hours.

Here is what to know about the rights of individuals if you are affected by or witness immigration enforcement.

A former acting ICE director told Newsweek that increased resources could allow the agency to deport public safety risks.

United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement is not targeting illegal immigrants inside a medical facility or religious facility, despite concerns that the Trump administration would do so after the rollback of a Biden-era policy earlier this year.

A majority of the people deported by ICE this year were convicted of traffic or immigration offenses, not violent crimes, according to data obtained by CBS News.

A Guatemalan national charged with first-degree rape remains in Limestone County Jail under an immigration hold and faces deportation at the conclusion of his case — part of a growing trend in Alabama of undocumented immigrants charged with crimes being flagged for removal under the Trump administration.

Immigrants who arrive illegally in the U.S. may be detained for months or years as they await a resolution to their immigration cases.