How sanctuary laws could throw a wrench into Trump's deportation plans

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

50% : One way sanctuary states can get ahead of the administration is to pass new laws to close loopholes that allow prisons and jails to cooperate with ICE.
50% : Although sanctuary laws prevent local and state officers from cooperating with ICE, Chan said immigrant advocates still must play a watchdog role to ensure agencies comply with the law.
49% : Today, 11 states, including Oregon, Colorado and New York, have sanctuary laws that prevent information sharing with ICE, to varying degrees.
47% : However, that agenda will likely face significant obstacles in jurisdictions like California, where sanctuary laws limit cooperation between local law enforcement and ICE.
46% : The state is preparing for a repeat; during a special session in early December, lawmakers introduced a bill to set aside $25 million for legal fees to respond to the administration's attacks on state policies, including immigration.
46% : Many sanctuary states, including California, still allow prisons and jails to facilitate transfer of prisoners to ICE.
46% : We're going to need to do the same under Trump 2.0.
45% : "We've shifted the practice statewide where the default is to not turn someone over to ICE," she said.
45% : Still, there are actions Trump can take on day one to roll back protections for immigrants -- even for people in sanctuary states.
42% : Sanctuary laws prevent these handoffs by blocking local and state agencies from sharing information or cooperating with ICE.
38% : The Trump administration could end Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), which allows undocumented individuals brought to the U.S. as children to stay and work, but in an interview with NBC in early December, Trump said he was open to working with Democrats to pass legislation to allow them to stay in the country.
32% : Trump is likely to prioritize deporting people who have final removal orders, as they have exhausted most of their legal options.
29% : Even before Trump takes office, his administration is clashing with sanctuary jurisdictions.
27% : Escobar-Lopez's 2019 brush with ICE illustrates the obstacles the second President Donald Trump administration may face in pursuing mass deportations of immigrants.
27% : The ICE transfer, which happened during Trump's first term, was a violation of California's recently enacted sanctuary law, which prohibits local law enforcement from cooperating with ICE.
27% : Trump has vowed to carry out mass deportations on his first day back in office.
26% : Trump said in the NBC interview that his deportations would begin by targeting undocumented immigrants who have committed a crime, and then branch out to include people without criminal backgrounds.
23% : Trump has also repeatedly threatened to scale back Temporary Protected Status, which provides temporary residency to people from countries experiencing conflict or natural disasters.
19% : "Homan also threatened to slash federal funding to sanctuary states that oppose deportations -- something Trump tried in 2020.
14% : Trump could also cancel a Biden-era order directing ICE to avoid arrests at sensitive locations like courts, schools, hospitals and places of worship, warned Jehan Laner, senior staff attorney for the Immigrant Legal Resource Center.

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