Five takeaways from White House on border and immigration at 100-day mark

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : "The second [executive order] is centered around protecting American communities from criminal aliens, and it will direct the attorney general and secretary of Homeland Security to publish a list of state and local jurisdictions that obstruct the enforcement of federal immigration laws.
51% : America's borders are now secure because of President Trump.
51% : [If] we didn't do it, the story today would be, 'Trump administration separating families again.'
46% : Just one day shy of President Donald Trump's 100th day in office, top Trump administration officials claimed victory on myriad border and immigration-related promises that Trump made to voters as a candidate.
46% : "Border Patrol, in collaboration with the Department of Defense and the great state of Texas, have deployed 75 additional miles of temporary barriers across the southern border.
45% : " During the first term, Congress appropriated $15 billion to fund 738 miles of border wall in addition to money the Trump administration redirected from the Departments of Defense and Treasury.
42% : " In 2016, Trump vowed as a candidate to build a 1,000-mile wall on the nearly 2,000-mile border, stretching from the Pacific Coast in California to the Gulf of Mexico in Texas.
41% : San Francisco filed the lawsuits in February on behalf of more than a dozen cities that sued because Washington was illegally attempting to force their jurisdictions to cooperate with federal immigration authorities. CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE GAZETTE
37% : By the time Trump left office in January 2021, 450 miles of the 738 in funded miles were completed.
19% : " Abrego Garcia was mistakenly flown out of the country in mid-March after Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act as grounds to deport illegal immigrants with terrorism affiliations swiftly.

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