The first three months of Trump's second administration have been rife with controversy and unprecedented challenges to the limits of executive authority. Reports of detentions and deportations of protected immigrants and the trafficking of migrants to El Salvador's megaprison, CECOT, raise fears as Trump openly flirts with ideas of deporting American citizens. Global markets are thrown into uncertainty as tariffs upset trade relations, which serves as an implicit extortion tactic for the US to pressure trade partners to step away from China as they grow to overtake global markets.

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