Trump Signals That He's Serious About Mass Deportation

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

62% : He became the acting director of ICE at the start of Trump's presidency and remained in that role for about a year and a half, including during the peak of Trump's policy of family separation at the border.
52% : Among other things, he said, Trump would use the military to help enforce laws, using the Insurrection Act as license.
46% : But they are also veteran policy makers who were in politics before Trump, and who hold some allegiance to institutions and government processes.
43% : Stephen Miller is Trump's right-hand trollHoman was a career law-enforcement and border official, but his profile changed under Trump as he became a prominent figure, praising Trump for "taking the shackles off" ICE officers.
43% : As border czar, he will likely not require confirmation -- though the new Republican Senate majority is expected to be more accommodating to Trump.
37% : Miller said ICE would focus on rounding up groups of people at job sites and other public places rather than seeking to arrest specific individuals.
34% : "There is nobody better at policing and controlling our Borders," Trump wrote on Truth Social last night.
34% : During the presidential campaign, Trump vowed to remove not only undocumented immigrants but also some legal ones.
31% : Nearly as telling as whom Trump has appointed is whom he has ruled out.
30% : During his first administration, Trump tried -- persistently, though often ineffectively -- to institute his priorities, especially on immigration.
27% : Trump has also promised to use a 1798 law, the Alien Enemies Act, to facilitate deportation without due process under the law.
25% : Trump was often stymied by courts.
23% : But Homan retired around the time Trump was forced to end that policy, frustrated that the Senate would not confirm him.
5% : "Any activists who doubt President Trump's resolve in the slightest are making a drastic error: Trump will unleash the vast arsenal of federal powers to implement the most spectacular migration crackdown," Miller told the Times.
0% : Haley criticized Trump after the January 6 riot, while Pompeo reportedly discussed removing Trump from office via the Twenty-Fifth Amendment.

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