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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

66% : "They have made an incredibly strong case that the president must terminate the emergency declaration that he issued on January 20." Vanessa Cárdenas, executive director of America's Voice, an immigration rights organization, told me she sees two motives for Trump invoking the Insurrection Act.
57% : "He would love a distraction right now," Cárdenas said of the Insurrection Act, "and I think this could be it.
55% : This is the truth about what Trump wants to do with deportations The truth here is easy to see and has been just as easy to predict, as I did in a column on Nov. 24, three weeks after Trump won reelection.
55% : And, after winning reelection by promising to make things more affordable, Trump has shown zero effort to actually improve the economy.
54% : "We don't know until we see it," Goitein said, "but that is the kind of thing that, in theory, could be permitted under the Insurrection Act.
52% : " If ever a legal precedent sounds tailor-made for Trump, this would be it.
46% : Trump issued another executive order on April 11, authorizing the U.S. military to take control of federal lands along the border.
46% : " And, again, all this comes while Trump brags about efficiently and effectively closing the border.
42% : "Trump himself posted on social media that the invasion is over, that very few people came in the last couple of months to try to get over the border," Goitein said.
41% : Invoking the Insurrection Act would allow Trump to deploy active-duty military members for law enforcement in this country, while also federalizing National Guard units from states to join that effort.
41% : Goitein of the Brennan Center for Justice told me Trump has been sending mixed signals the whole time he has been back in the White House.
40% : Now we find out if Trump, on April 20, will invoke the Insurrection Act of 1807 to deal with what he called on his first day in office "a national emergency at the southern border."
36% : Trump couldn't care less about logical disconnects.
35% : Trump has already invoked archaic federal laws to curb immigration while also having the military take over land along the border.
34% : " Trump's 'legally incoherent' approach to immigration Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act in March to assist a mass-deportation effort.
32% : " While he presses his immigration crusade, Trump is also crashing the stock market with illogical trade tariffs that he about-faces on and then doubles down on.
29% : Elizabeth Goitein, the Brennan Center for Justice's senior director for liberty and national security, told me Trump has wanted to invoke the Insurrection Act since the 2020 protests during his first term, after the murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer. Mark Esper, then Defense secretary, dared to tell Trump no then.
28% : " CNN on April 18, citing government sources, reported that Noem and Hegseth are expected to not recommend invoking the Insurrection Act for now, because border crossings are decreasing.
24% : The question is still unanswered - will Trump follow the law if judges tell him to stop?
21% : Wilkinson, a known conservative, wrote in a judicial slap down to Trump and his administration.
19% : Trump desperately wants to have an emergency at the border In his Jan. 20 executive order declaring an emergency at the southern border, Trump set a 90-day deadline for Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to submit a joint report on conditions at the border, "including whether to invoke the Insurrection Act of 1807.
18% : While we wait, it's worth considering that Noem and Hegseth would never, under any circumstances, tell Trump something he does not want to hear.
18% : Goitein calls Trump's approach "legally incoherent" since the Insurrection Act treats unlawful migration "as a law enforcement matter" while the Alien Enemies Act treats it "as an act of war" and Trump's new militarization of the border treats it "as an act of trespass on a military base.

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