Trump's Mass Deportations Have Officially Begun

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrests surged the week after President Donald Trump took office, with arrests Sunday totaling nearly 1,000 in a coordinated operation with other federal law enforcement agencies.
49% : ICE noted Sunday that it targeted Chicago specifically.
48% : Trump did away with prosecutorial discretion policies again last week shortly after taking office.
45% : " The coordinated series of arrests, carried out with assistance from the FBI, the Drug Enforcement Administration, the U.S. Marshals Service and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, targeted people accused of serious crimes, according to ICE, which throughout the week posted a series of profiles of arrestees and their convictions or charges to its X account.
42% : Trump did away with prosecutorial discretion during his first term, however, leading interior removals to creep back up again until the COVID-19 pandemic slowed them down.
41% : HuffPost could not immediately confirm what charges the man had faced, and ICE did not immediately respond to a request for details about his case.
36% : "We're going to do this on a priority basis, as President Trump has promised, but as that aperture opens, there's going to be more arrests nationwide," Homan told ABC News.
34% : Homan has repeatedly criticized Democratic-led cities and states like those targeted for attempting to limit cooperation with federal immigration enforcement.
34% : On Sunday, Trump threatened Colombian President Gustavo Petro with emergency tariffs of 25% on all imports for refusing to allow flights to land in his country.
32% : A man named Jesus Gonzalez, interviewed by local station Fox 32 Chicago, said that he voted for Trump, but disagreed with some of the arrests he was seeing in his neighborhood.
29% : Trump said those tariffs would rise to 50% by the end of the week if Petro continued to block deportee flights.

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