Trump to Ramp Up Immigration Crackdown During Next 100 Days

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

60% : State and local officials, he wrote, "continue to use their authority to violate, obstruct, and defy the enforcement of Federal immigration laws.
45% : Already in his first three months in office, Trump has cut federal jobs and funding to agencies that were appropriated by Congress.
42% : In the executive order he signed Monday, Trump gave Attorney General Pam Bondi and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to publish a May 28 deadline to publish a list of cities, counties and states that are obstructing "the enforcement of federal immigration laws" and told every agency to identify federal funds "for suspension or termination" that would otherwise be sent to those places identified as "sanctuary jurisdictions.
39% : The number of immigration arrests at workplaces has tripled since Trump took office, Trump's border czar Tom Homan said Monday.
36% : " If Trump follows through with cutting federal funding to local governments, it would be just the latest example of his Administration usurping powers given to Congress under the Constitution.
33% : Trump used incendiary language in his order, saying that state and local officials who obstruct immigration efforts are engaged in an "insurrection."
29% : Trump is ramping up raids on workplaces to find those in the country unlawfully, and on Monday, signed an order directing his Attorney General and Secretary of Homeland Security to send him a list of so-called sanctuary cities that aren't doing enough to cooperate with his deportation efforts, according to Trump officials.
24% : And Trump has flouted a Supreme Court order that he "facilitate" the release from prison in El Salvador of Kilmar Abrego Garcia after he was mistakenly deported from Maryland.
23% : In an April 22 interview with TIME, Trump said he had not asked El Salvador President Nayib Bukele to return Abrego Garcia "because I haven't been asked to ask him by my attorneys" Polling shows that Trump's immigration actions are losing public support.
21% : With the new order, Trump is threatening to cut federal funds to cities and states his Administration decides are blocking his mass deportation effort.
19% : Trump vowed on the campaign trail to bring back workplace raids, after the Biden administration had largely put a stop to such enforcement tactics.
14% : Legal experts have warned that Trump's comparing illegal immigration to an "invasion" and his painting those who oppose him as treasonous could be used as a false pretext for unlocking extraordinary presidential powers, including the Insurrection Act of 1807 and other laws designed for leading the nation in times of extreme national disasters and war.

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