Trump's second presidency sparks fear of 'scary' time ahead among some immigrants

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : During his victory speech on election night, Trump reiterated his plans for tougher immigration enforcement: "We're gonna have to seal up those borders, and we're gonna have to let people come into our country.
52% : Trump won about 45% of Latino voters in this election, up significantly from the 32% of Latinos he won in 2020, according to CNN exit polling.
48% : Trump took aim at everyone who wasn't a citizen or legal permanent resident, and "put everyone at the same level," said Jessica Orozco Guttlein, senior vice president for policy at the Hispanic Federation.
44% : "Trump didn't meet his mass deportation goals during his first term, after he ran into legal road blocks and the refusal by "sanctuary" jurisdictions to work with him, from San Francisco to Chicago and New York City.
40% : Though Trump may not have delivered on his more extreme promises the first time - including a vow to deport millions or seal off the 2,000-mile U.S.-Mexico border - the administration was broadly successful in ramping up immigration enforcement and making legal immigration more difficult, according to a report by the nonpartisan Migration Policy Institute.
38% : To deport upwards of 11 million people, as Trump has promised, "you are talking about going into people's homes, where there are mixed-status families," said Juan Proaño, chief executive of the League of United Latin American Citizens, or LULAC.
36% : Across all four years of Trump's administration, ICE recorded just under 932,000 deportations.
32% : Trump has often cited a 1954 deportation sweep as a model for his mass-deportation effort.
27% : "But Trump has threatened to curtail federal resources to sanctuary jurisdictions that refuse to cooperate with federal immigration authorities, and that could put some cash-strapped cities in a bind.
23% : Trump has said mass deportation is a necessary step to protect the country from "criminal illegal aliens."
19% : Kagan, the Las Vegas professor, said he suspects some Trump voters don't really understand what a mass deportation would look like, and others may have backed Trump because he promised to address longstanding border concerns and think he'll only target violent offenders.
13% : The optics of Abbott's busing program, which forced cities to provide shelter and services to tens of thousands of migrants, fueled some Americans' anger with the Biden-Harris administration's handling of the border and drove voters to Trump.

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