AYESHA RASCOE, HOST:

The Trump administration continues its aggressive campaign to detain and deport immigrants in the U.S. illegally. Multiple cities are at the center of these efforts, including Chicago and Los Angeles. Now the Department of Homeland Security says the crackdown, which started shortly after President Trump took office, has resulted in the removal of more than half a million undocumented immigrants so far. To fact-check these numbers and put them in context, we're joined now by NPR's Sergio Martínez-Beltrán. Welcome, Sergio.

SERGIO MARTÍNEZ-BELTRÁN, BYLINE: Hi, Ayesha.

RASCOE: So where does that figure - 500,000 people deported - come from, and is it accurate?

MARTÍNEZ-BELTRÁN: Well, the pace of deportations has clearly increased by a lot under Trump, but it's not clea

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