Trump administration moves spark fears of new immigration crackdown

Donald Trump flatly denied on Tuesday that he was planning a “big” new crackdown on migrants at the southern border, even as senior administration officials briefed reporters on the details of such a plan in the works, leaders in charge of immigration policy were shuffled, and insiders described Trump in private as apoplectic over a recent increase in migrant arrivals.

A senior official told reporters the White House was crafting a plan that would target asylum-seekers anew and possibly bring back a version of Trump’s deeply unpopular policy of family...