President Donald Trump on Monday suggested sending repeat criminal offenders to foreign countries, suggesting the move may cut the government’s spending on prisons, following an escalation of arrests across the country in recent days as part of what Trump has promised would be the “largest deportation operation” in U.

The incoming administration will need to clear a number of hurdles to enact its plan, immigration experts said.

As President Trump ramps up efforts for what could be the largest mass deportation in U.S. history, immigration raids rise nationwide. In Acadiana, undocumented immigrants fear for their future.

Here's what we know so far about ICE enforcement operations in the wake of several immigration-related executive orders Trump signed.

With more than 11 million undocumented immigrants in the U.S., Trump's Operation Aurora would cost billions of dollars.

Trump said the move would double U.S. detention lockup capacities, and Guantanamo is “a tough place to get out of.”

Trump made the announcement right before he signed the Laken Riley Act into law as his administration’s first piece of legislation.