Trump wants to deport millions; Maryland counties are sharply split on whether to help

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

47% : If Trump follows through with his program as promised, local jurisdictions will be left with the politically charged decision of whether to assist federal agents if asked.
42% : In Howard County, local law enforcement is barred from assisting ICE in immigration enforcement under the county code.
41% : Others may have received protections under Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), a program with an uncertain future that protected people brought to the country as children from deportation.
40% : "The current mandate under President Biden is for ICE to focus on those with criminal convictions," said Colleen Putzell-Kavanaugh, an associate policy analyst at the Migration Policy Institute, a nonpartisan think tank.
38% : Karoline Leavitt, a Trump transition spokeswoman who will be White House press secretary, said this week that Trump will "marshal every federal and state power necessary to institute the largest deportation operation of illegal criminals, drug dealers, and human traffickers in American history.
38% : Matthew Elliston, the Baltimore field office director for ICE, did not immediately return messages seeking comment.
29% : None of the counties surveyed by The Sun said they would resist cooperating with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to capture and detain potentially dangerous criminal suspects.

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