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Do Americans support Trump's mass deportations?

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Polls show support for mass deportations varies depending on how the question is asked.

The only specific policy that seems to be popular is deporting immigrants who have been convicted of a crime.

Americans get cold feet about deportations when families are at risk of being separated.

If Trump wants to stay on the right side of public opinion while keeping his campaign promise to deport immigrants, it's clear what he has to do.

But the administration could struggle to stick to that narrow mandate given the quotas they have reportedly issued to ICE .

Already, there are reports that ICE has arrested undocumented immigrants with no criminal record.