Undue Process: The Inside Story of Trump’s Mass Deportation Program

by Julia Ainsley

A revealing, news driven account of the Trump Administration’s mass deportation program, featuring never-before-told stories and behind-the-scenes reporting from NBC News’ Senior Homeland Security Correspondent.

In Undue Process, NBC’s Senior Homeland Security correspondent Julia Ainsley takes us inside the Trump White House to show how Stephen Miller, Kristi Noem, Tom Homan, and other anti-immigration hardliners are executing the administration’s mass deportation plan, seemingly prioritizing spectacle and punishment over security and legal constraints.

Brimming with revelations from sources within ICE and the Department of Homeland Security, Undue Process is a harrowing chronicle of how the Trump administration aimed to create “the largest deportation force in U.S. history,” only to ignite a resistance within the government and across the country as they redefined the limits of executive power.

Genres: Nonfiction, Politics, History, Race, Audiobook, Government

222 pages, Kindle Edition

Published May 5, 2026

Reviews

[Regan · Rating 5 out of 5]

What a heartbreaking, difficult, but essential read. It's one thing to see the horrors promulgated by Steven Miller and the Trump administration in snippets in the news literally every day -- but to see it day by day, week by week and month by month the arrogance, the lack of compassion, the racism and bigotry of those people in one book, page by page, is beyond horrifying. Ainsley lays it all out in an unbiased, fact based book. Interspersed with her own reporting, not in an egotiscal way, but to show how fact based this read is, she tells her own story. The few snippets where she talks about her own daughter and compares her own fears that but for her being who and what she is, what she saw happening to innocent children add to the factual information in the book. It is a must read and, if we eventually get to bring justice to the administration, it will be part of a road map to prove their criminality. A must read.

[Julia · Rating 4 out of 5]

A mess and it all feels like it's for show.

[Jon Koebrick · Rating 4 out of 5]

“The worst of the worst” was always a lie as to the deportation plans and best describes those creating and carrying out the mass deportation plans. This is an excellently written book and shows how the rule of law was and is being eroded. This is a book more American people need to read. 4.75 stars.

[Paulatics · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book should be read by every American. The Trump Administration’s cruel and inhumane immigration policies, run by Stephen Miller, have been documented in this important book.

“On the afternoon of Trump’s one hundred eighteenth day, a draft bill made its way out of the House Budget Committee that could provide a road map of what was to come.

“The One Big Beautiful Bill included a $75 billion infusion into ICE, a $9 billion agency. The funding made ICE the richest law enforcement agency in the country. They could spend with as little efficiency as they wanted. And the ruthlessness with which the Trump administration could pursue its goals in the next 1,361 days would know no bounds.”

[Jacqueline Kawate · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a heartbreaking look inside the Department of Homeland Security, ICE, and Border Patrol. They were tasked by Stephen Miller to detain and deport any immigrant, regardless of legal status. If constrained by the court, they were told to tell the judge “fuck you” and ignore court orders. (Their curse, not mine). This was never about getting “the worst of the worst”. It was about Miller’s dream of a whites only American. Any lawyers or agents who disagreed with or questioned the tactics being used were fired. Great book, I hate that it needed to be written. However bad you thought Stephen Miller, Kristi Noem, Greg Bovino and Tom Homan were, they are 10 times worse. And why did Corey Lewandoski wield so much power at DHS? Hmm.

[Thief of Pages (Ty) · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was a tough read but an important one. The public needs to be aware of how truly inhumane and cruel this administration’s immigration policy is. As much as I disagreed with Biden’s approach to immigration, this disgusting and evil approach by Trump and his band of parasites ain’t the answer either.

[Lisa Samuelson-Jones · Rating 5 out of 5]

The Mass Deportation

This book gives excellent insight on Trump, the DOJ, and ICE actions so far in his 2nd term. It exposes the lies told by government officials and the constant attempts (and successes) to defy the US Constitution and the US judges.

[Edward ott · Rating 5 out of 5]

I wish I could say I was shocked.

[Hannah Kastengren · Rating 5 out of 5]

Highly recommend. So informative and important.

[Leandra · Rating 5 out of 5]

An unfortunate, but important read

[Ron Schneider · Rating 5 out of 5]

Even though we have lived through this madness over the past 18 months, it's still disturbing as hell. Our treatment of immigrants is shameful.

[Micah · Rating 5 out of 5]

Absolutely insane. There's truly no words for how blatant, brazen, and un-checked Trump's power-trip is and has been since day 1, and how deeply baffling it is that nothing can seem to stop him.

[Eileen O'Flaherty · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent!

[Kelly Ambrose · Rating 3 out of 5]

Loved the content and information, and very much agree, just didn’t love the writing. 3.5 stars.