NY immigrant aid groups brace for Trump deportation push, seek law to curb ICE contacts

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

51% : Some of New York's local governments, including Westchester County, already have "sanctuary" policies in place that limit when their agencies may interact with Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, or ICE.
51% : With an estimated 20 million people living in mixed-status families, ICE "may pick up whoever is easy to find," rather than use its discretionary power to choose whom to deport, she said.
39% : He said he already has a pending deportation case after being detained by ICE in 2022, but has been unable to get any information about its status.
38% : That proposal, known as New York for All, has sat without action in Albany since 2020, but is now a rallying cry for advocacy groups with the next legislative session set to begin in early January, just before Trump takes office.
35% : "When asked about handling an estimated 4 million U.S. families with mixed immigration status, Trump offered the same solution that Tom Homan, his future "border czar," has suggested in interviews: deport them all, citizen children along with their undocumented parents.
21% : During an interview Sunday on NBC's Meet the Press, Trump said his administration plans to start by deporting immigrants who committed crimes and then move on to "others."

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