The Great Deportation of 2025

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

49% : While he all but shut down refugee admissions from overseas, took steps to curb legal migration, and tightened the U.S. border with Mexico during the COVID-19 pandemic, his administration did little to remove migrants already present in the country.
48% : Until now, conservative critics of immigration, including Trump himself during his first term, have focused largely on securing borders and reducing new arrivals.
45% : This week, Trump suggested he may go farther still and declare a national emergency -- using broad powers granted by Congress to the president -- in order to deploy the U.S. military to expedite deportations.
44% : Most immigration enforcement takes place near the border or quietly, when unauthorized migrants are detained on criminal charges and turned over to ICE.
42% : Homan has promised to revive "worksite enforcement" in which ICE targets workplaces such as slaughterhouses and farms that are suspected of employing large numbers of undocumented migrants.
40% : "Homan promised in a Nov. 8 interview with Fox News to start by focusing on "public security threats and national security threats," which is pretty much what the Biden administration and others have done; more than 40 percent of those arrested and targeted for removal by ICE in 2023 had some sort of criminal conviction or pending charge.
38% : With Republican control of both the House and the Senate, Trump may be able to push through laws not only to boost funding for removal operations, but also to weaken legal protections for unauthorized migrants.
36% : Nearly 1 in 3 Latino families -- a group that voted more strongly for Trump in this election than in the previous two -- is faced with the threat of removal or family separation in the event of a mass deportation.
36% : Previous administrations have used the power almost exclusively to remove unauthorized border crossers shortly after their arrival, but Trump tried late in his first term to extend that power to migrants who had lived anywhere in the country for less than two years.
34% : In his first term, Trump did not push very hard.
31% : Homan has four decades of experience on migration issues; as the acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) during Trump's first term, he was the architect of the controversial policy of separating migrant parents from their children when they crossed the border from Mexico illegally.

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