60 Minutes Overtime: The border and immigration
60 Minutes and 60 Minutes Overtime have reported on the immigration and border policy of the Trump administration leading up to and during President Trump's second term in office. Here are some of those stories.
The blueprint of Trump's deportation plan: A questionable approach by Eisenhower (October 2024)
While running for re-election in October 2024, President Donald Trump pledged to deport millions of undocumented migrants. His plan was inspired by a 1954 operation that historians have said ultimately did not work.
On the Canadian border with a Mexican cartel smuggler (March 2025)
In March 2025, a self-described member of Mexico's Sinaloa cartel told 60 Minutes it's not just the southern border — drugs and people also pass both ways between the U.S. and Canada.
Photojournalist witnesses Venezuelan migrants' arrival in El Salvador: "They had no idea what was coming" (April 2025)