A Key Trump Ally on Immigration Explains How Mass Deportations Could Work

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : A provision in federal immigration law allows U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to make agreements with state and law enforcement agencies to deputize and train officers to arrest migrants.
42% : But Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach does expect Trump to take action that will spark a legal challenge over the citizenship status of children born in the U.S. to immigrants living in the country illegally.
37% : Trump could seek new contracts with counties to keep immigrants in their jails, and Kobach said he's previously worked as a lawyer for some Texas counties with bigger jails than they need for local offenders.
36% : He also expects Trump to encourage local and state law enforcement officers to help with efforts to arrest and detain migrants.Kobach has for two decades been one of the most influential lawyers in the Republican movement to restrict illegal immigration.
28% : "Where would immigrants be detained?President Joe Biden's administration cut the number of beds that ICE had for detaining immigrants living in the U.S. illegally.
22% : Trump has promised to end it, though others say the 14th Amendment enshrines it in the U.S. Constitution.KOBACH: "Whatever the Trump administration does will certainly be litigated because it's one of those hot-button issues.""I believe that the Trump administration has every intention of addressing this issue, in his second term.

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