Ahead of Day 1, Trump's team works to temper expectations on immigration - The Boston Globe

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

61% : Theresa Cardinal Brown, a former policy adviser for Customs and Border Protection, said Trump will benefit from Homan's experience.
60% : Picking up targets from local US jails is much more efficient, but requires increased cooperation from progressive cities that have shunned working with ICE.
55% : Some lawmakers expect that after an initial wave of deportations of those easiest to remove, Trump will spend the rest of his time in office haggling with Congress over money for more.
55% : Some Democratic governors, governors-elect and candidates have said they are willing to consider areas of potential cooperation with Trump when it comes to immigration.
54% : And the agency only has 20,000 employees, about a third of whom are deportation officers.ICE operations within US communities, in which officers target and detain immigrants, are resource-intensive and often require extensive research.
47% : In 2019, ICE removed more than 267,000 people -- the highest annual total during the Trump administration.
45% : "Trump will still find ways to call attention to his early efforts to crack down, such as spotlighting deportations in Democratic-led cities or worksite raids in the first days of his presidency.
45% : For his mass deportations, Trump must surge the hiring of immigration agents and secure access to more airplanes to remove millions of immigrants.
44% : He will need to find a way to overcome rules in what some call "sanctuary cities" -- those that refuse to hand over immigrants detained by police to federal immigration authorities.
43% : Trump could also use a provision in the Immigration and Nationality Act that President Biden embraced to further crack down on border crossings.
42% : "The American people reelected President Trump by a resounding margin giving him a mandate to implement the promises he made on the campaign trail, like deporting migrant criminals and restoring our economic greatness," Karoline Leavitt, a spokesperson for Trump said in a statement.
38% : "ICE also does not know where each of the estimated 12 million to 14 million immigrants with contested or uncertain status in the United States are.
34% : In the 2024 fiscal year, ICE removed more than 271,000 people, the highest total since the Obama administration.
21% : "Trump promised nationwide raids to deport millions of immigrants when he was last in office, shocking many of his own ICE officials who long complained about limited resources.
20% : But Trump tried to use the law in 2018 to block asylum-seekers who crossed the border illegally and was blocked by a federal judge in San Francisco.

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