Florida Leads as State and Local Governments Sign on for Trump's Mass Deportations

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

61% : On Monday, the president signed an executive order to publish a list of "sanctuary" jurisdictions and reiterated threats of criminal charges against state or local officials who thwart federal policy.
57% : U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement had 135 agreements across 21 states in December.
55% : Texas, whose Republican governor, Greg Abbott, has closely allied himself with Trump on immigration, has 76 enforcement agreements on record, the second-largest number of any state.
53% : Texas has also signed an agreement with U.S. Customs and Border Protection for its National Guard to arrest people at the border.
49% : Many of the new pacts adhere to a "task force model" under which police arrest immigrants on the streets and in communities, as opposed to a "jail enforcement model" under which ICE takes custody of people only when they are put in state and local jails or prisons.
36% : DeSantis said after ICE announced arrests Saturday.
33% : The roster of local police departments and state agencies that have joined President Donald Trump's drive for mass deportations has soared to more than 500, with nearly half from Florida.
22% : " Trumps deportation goals may be too big for ICE alone ICE, which has about 6,000 deportation officers, needs help achieving Trump's goal of deporting many of the roughly 11 million people in the country illegally, a conservative estimate.

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