Column | There aren't 20 million people to deport, but Trump will certainly try

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : You can see how this appealed to Trump, though.
50% : We've seen how Trump will scramble to declare victory on a campaign pledge in the past -- even if that victory isn't attainable.
41% : Expanding detention facilities -- camps or prisons -- might be an avenue that Trump tries to achieve through the use of emergency powers.
39% : Trump made an example of Haitians living in Ohio, despite their having arrived in the United States through a legal mechanism for immigration.
37% : When Trump talks about his plans to remove undocumented immigrants from the country, though, he uses much larger numbers: 15 million or, as is common these days, 20 million.
33% : It's not clear that even the broad authority of the National Emergencies Act affords Trump the ability to establish a military-run mass-deportation process.
32% : Congress had the authority to end his national emergency (and with it the rationale for shifting funding), but Trump held veto power over those efforts.
27% : Often, when speaking to non-base audiences, Trump and his allies have focused on the more urgent need to deport criminals.
22% : That Trump has a vague, exaggerated presentation of the problem is unsurprising, certainly.
21% : In late 2018, after his party was routed in the midterm elections, Trump tried to get the lame-duck Congress to include funding for a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border.
13% : Trump's incoming lead on the border has in the past said that he wouldn't -- since families "can be deported together.")At other times, Trump (and his allies) have indicated that immigrants here with authorization should be removed.

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