"A climate of fear": Trump's mass deportations could bring "human misery" in 2025

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

45% : "If the Republicans are able to take over the House and the Senate, they will cut Trump whatever checks he wants to do this program.
45% : Many observers, Eddington said, are "underestimating Trump and they're underestimating the people surrounding him now.
37% : Although Trump has mentioned deputizing National Guard troops or local law enforcement to pursue deportations, that would also present enormous logistical challenges.
35% : Esper writes that he had to "figure out a way to walk Trump back without creating the mess I was trying to avoid.
33% : But Ngai is skeptical that Trump could make good on his "threat" to launch the largest deportation campaign in American history.
32% : He suggested in an interview that Trump might declare the presence of undocumented migrants a threat to national security and use the broad powers afforded to the president to carry out deportations, adding that the federal judiciary has historically deferred to the executive branch on issues of national security.
29% : Others, however, suggest we should not underestimate the willingness of Trump and his 2024 inner circle to violate legal and political norms and bulldoze the kinds of obstacles that might stop a more conventional administration.
26% : By most estimates, there are around 11 million undocumented migrants in the U.S., dramatically lower than the 15 to 20 million that Trump has vowed to deport.
24% : The Supreme Court's recent decision on presidential immunity would surely further empower Trump in this respect, and Trump could potentially issue blanket pardons for those carrying out his orders, even if those orders are found to be illegal.Many people, Eddington said, are underestimating the willingness of those people now in Trump's orbit to pull the levers of power.
22% : In his 2022 memoir, "A Sacred Oath," Esper disclosed that Trump had suggested that law enforcement should shoot protesters near the White House following the police murder of George Floyd.
19% : "Patrick Eddington, a senior policy analyst for national security and civil liberties at the libertarian-leaning Cato Institute, takes a darker view, arguing that it's "naive" to suggest that Trump would be deterred by logistical complications.
8% : "Meissner said that the agency primarily responsible for deportations, Immigration and Customs Enforcement or ICE, simply lacks the resources required to conduct deportations at the scale Trump is discussing.

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