Trump's immigration crackdown is expected to start on Day 1

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

67% : Either way, under Trump, according to the person close to the transition, it's likely toast.
56% : Finding, detaining and removing those people would be resource-intensive, said John Sandweg, acting director of ICE from 2013 to 2014.
48% : Lawmakers need to appropriate the funding, and even if they do, the administration would need to hire, vet and train more officers -- no easy feat.ICE currently employs 7,000 officers who conduct 250,000 deportations a year, according to the agency.
46% : "Trump has also said he would restore his Remain in Mexico policy -- officially called Migrant Protection Protocols -- that required some asylum-seekers to stay south of the U.S.-Mexican border while they await immigration court hearings.
42% : Regardless of the hurdles and impediments, Trump has been unequivocal.
41% : Trump, meanwhile, campaigned on expelling many of them.
39% : The speed at which Trump could remake deportation policy depends on surmounting tactical challenges like expanding detention capacity and cutting through a massive immigration court backlog.
38% : This time, Trump may have friendlier arbiters.
33% : And Thomas Homan, a former acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement under Trump, is returning to be the administration's border czar.
31% : Trump has already tapped South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, who has little experience with the Department of Homeland Security, to lead the sprawling agency.
28% : Here are some of the immigration initiatives Trump's team is expected to roll out quickly, and the hurdles they could face:Trump campaigned on mass deportation -- something that could affect large swaths of the 11 million people DHS estimates are in the U.S. without legal authorization.
25% : If Trump's administration wanted to quadruple this number, as Trump has promised, training academies couldn't handle a deluge of new hires.

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