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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

46% : The bipartisan legislation -- which Trump signed into law Wednesday and which was cosponsored in the Senate by Pennsylvania's own John Fetterman -- does away with due process for not only immigrants who are in the country without authorization but for those allowed to be here legally through Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) or with Temporary Protected Status.
45% : This was never really about immigration reform or law and order.
44% : Putting aside those legally seeking asylum (for which there was a line that Trump did away with), there is no queue for the kinds and numbers of economic migrants who come here because the U.S. needs their labor.
41% : Ubiñas: As I've repeatedly said, Mayor Cherelle L. Parker should have been front and center on this issue on Day One of Trump 2.0, and spare me the justifications for her silence as of press time, including not wanting to call attention to us or put a bigger target on our backs.
40% : The administration has also increased the number of mass arrests made by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), with Philadelphia seeing the detention of seven people at a car wash on East Hunting Park Avenue on Tuesday.
35% : The pastor of St. Thomas Aquinas in South Philly -- which serves multiple immigrant communities -- courageously pledged that ICE will be stopped at the door of the church, warrant or no warrant.
26% : In unleashing ICE on our neighborhoods, the Trump administration is counting on the public not caring if the people snapped up in the raids are involved in any criminal behavior.
24% : I wonder how many people, even many who voted for Trump, really think that trying to make a living off tips at a North Philly car wash is criminal behavior.
24% : Deportation is the dream punishment Trump and his people want to mete out to those who don't agree with them, as well as to those they've spent years portraying as subhuman.
24% : Trump and his supporters weaponize fear and white grievance to justify and inflict as much pain as possible on our most marginalized.
15% : Vourvoulias: Democrats couldn't even muster enough will to fight for immigrants when Trump and JD Vance were fabricating their anti-immigrant fairy tales about Haitians eating dogs during the campaign.

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