Chicago prepares for deportation arrests targeting hundreds next week after Trump takes office

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

74% : "Trump told NBC News on Saturday that mass deportations remain a top priority.
58% : It has strengthened those policies several times since, including after Trump first took office eight years ago.
53% : Immigrants and groups advocating for them have been preparing since Trump made mass deportations a signature pledge of his campaign.
48% : The nation's third-largest city became a so-called sanctuary city in the 1980s, limiting how police can cooperate with federal immigration agents.
41% : "What we're telling ICE, you're going to go enforce the immigration law without apology.
39% : "We were always operating as though Trump was going to target Chicago and Illinois early in his administration.
35% : "We're going to take the handcuffs off ICE and let them go arrest criminal aliens, that's what's going to happen," Homan said Friday.
32% : ICE and the Trump transition team did not immediately respond to a request for comment Saturday.
29% : Trump has often been critical of Chicago, which has some of the country's strongest protections for people in the country without legal status.
22% : U.S. Immigration and Customs and Enforcement arrests a fraction of its targets in such operations, though Trump is expected to cast a wider net than President Joe Biden, whose focus on picking up people away from the border was largely limited to those with serious criminal histories and national security threats.
21% : Trump aides have said they will arrest others, such as spouses or roommates, who are not targets but happen to be in the country illegally.

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