Battle Lines Drawn on Trump's Border Crackdown

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : Gallego co-sponsored the Laken Riley bill but opposes ending birthright citizenship, another idea broached during the campaign and pressed by Trump on his first day in office.
50% : "Refugees International, a nonprofit advocacy organization, deemed Trump's first moves to tighten immigration laws "extreme" and "an attempt to reverse America's proud legacy and tradition of providing refuge to people forced to flee their homes.
46% : House Homeland Security Committee chairman Mark Green applauded the flurry of immigration restrictions Trump imposed on his first day in office, deeming them a "restoration of American sovereignty at our borders.
34% : Late Monday night, just hours after Trump signed the executive order ending birthright citizenship, the American Civil Liberties Union and several other immigration rights groups sued, accusing the administration of flouting the Constitution, congressional intent and longstanding Supreme Court precedent.
25% : In an interview Sunday on Italian television, Francis labeled the mass deportation of illegal immigrants "a calamity," remarks signaling a return to the friction between the pontiff and Trump that marked the president's first term in the White House.
23% : The executive action targeting children of illegal immigrants, along with a raft of border-related orders Trump signed to overhaul U.S. immigration and border security, attracted condemnation from Pope Francis, as well a host of left-leaning groups.
16% : In Monday's inaugural address, Trump pledged that "all illegal entry will immediately be halted."

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