The tension at the center of Trump's retooled immigration message: From the Politics Desk This is the online version of From the Politics Desk, a daily newsletter that brings you the NBC News Politics team’s latest reporting and analysis from the White House, Capitol Hill and the campaign trail.

Donald Trump’s gun-toting immigration courts chief is a “total moron” and “f---ing dope” who doesn’t actually understand his job, according to multiple sources who’ve worked alongside him. Daren Margolin serves as the MAGA administration’s director of the Executive Office of Immigration Review,

President Donald Trump is set to give remarks at the annual National Prayer Breakfast as Jackqui Heinrich reports on is administration's reveals a new strategy for immigration enforcement.

But Trump does not have a right to utilize the DOJ for his personal whims. In the aftermath of former President Richard Nixon’s Watergate scandal, Attorney General Griffin Bell laid out new bedrock principles in order to prevent the agency’s independence from crumbling under the pressure of the White House.

Trump sat down with “NBC Nightly News” anchor Tom Llamas and shared where his immigration crackdown is going, whether Americans will get rebate checks and more.

The House of Representatives passed a government funding package to end the partial shutdown over DHS reforms.

The administration has come under fire for its immigration policies.

In an extended interview with NBC News’ Tom Llamas, President Donald Trump addresses immigration enforcement, the American economy, U.S. tensions with Iran, Joe Rogan, AI and other topics from the Oval Office.