Immigration officers say 'the worst go first,' but now there's no...

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

63% : ICE´s daily arrests, which averaged 311 in the year ending Sept. 30, stayed fairly steady in the first days after Trump took office, then spiked dramatically Sunday to 956 and Monday to 1,179.
60% : Of those, nine were targets and the other four were people ICE came across during the course of the morning.
58% : If sustained, those numbers would mark the highest daily average since ICE began keeping records.
58% : That way ICE can get them.
58% : (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) Identification patches are placed for easy use before U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers begin enforcement operations, Monday, Jan. 27, 2025, in Silver Spring, Md.
54% : Elliston pushed back on those fears, saying it´s been exceedingly rare for ICE to enter one of those locations.
52% : U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers look at the identification of a person detained, Monday, Jan. 27, 2025, in Silver Spring, Md.
51% : U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers use a chain to more comfortably restrain a detained person using handcuffs positioned in front, Monday, Jan. 27, 2025, in Silver Spring, Md.
51% : Since starting his job in 2022, Elliston said he´s worked to build relations with elected officials and law enforcement agencies across Maryland, a state where many communities have sanctuary policies limiting their cooperation with federal immigration authorities.
49% : Elliston has reached out to cities to educate them about what ICE does and whom officers pursue.
46% : But getting rid of the sensitive locations policy does affect ICE in more subtle ways.
45% : By the end of Monday across Maryland, ICE had arrested 13 people.
42% : " A dozen officers from Immigration and Customs Enforcement gathered before dawn Monday in a Maryland parking lot, then fanned out to the Washington suburbs to find their targets: someone wanted in El Salvador for homicide, a person convicted of armed robbery, a migrant found guilty of possessing child sexual abuse material and another with drug and gun convictions.
39% : Trump also has lifted longtime guidelines that restricted ICE from operating at "sensitive locations" such as schools, churches or hospitals.
39% : ICE has a list of people they´re going after as opposed to indiscriminately going to a workplace or apartment building looking for people in the country illegally.
30% : That is no different from the Biden administration, but a big change has already taken hold: Under Trump, officers can now arrest people without legal status if they run across them while looking for migrants targeted for removal.
15% : " In the week since Trump returned to office, Elliston said he´s constantly been on the phone, trying to dispel rumors about what ICE is doing and who is getting arrested.

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