Immigration and Customs Enforcement has already begun arresting illegal immigrants from coast to coast in the first few days of President Donald Trump's administration.

About 88,000 undocumented immigrants live in the Palmetto state, according to estimates; officials and advocates are on alert for potential impacts

Many in immigrant communities across Massachusetts are preparing for mass deportations now that President Trump is in the Oval Office. In his inauguration speech Monday, Trump said that “millions and millions of criminal aliens” would be returned to their home countries.

The Trump administration has moved with lightning speed to roll out the president’s immigration agenda, effectively closing off the US southern border to asylum seekers, severely limiting who’s eligible to enter the United States and laying the groundwork to swiftly deport migrants already in the country.

Military aircraft took off from U.S. airports on Friday, carrying masses of undocumented immigrants in the first wave of President Donald Trump's mass deportation plan, White House Press Secretary Kar

Immigrants and advocacy groups nationwide are scrambling to prepare for the waves of raids President Trump has promised under his plan to deport millions of people unauthorized to stay in the U.S. Why it matters: Confusion and persistent rumors about how the raids will be carried out — and what will happen to those detained by immigration agents — are leading some anxious immigrants to refuse to go to work or send their children to schools,