Florida leads as state and local governments sign on for Trump's...

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.
48% : 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.
36% : DeSantis said after ICE announced arrests Saturday.
24% : " 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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