While President Donald Trump has threatened to punish local law enforcement if they do not help carry out mass deportations, some have said they still won’t comply. In Texas, though, that hasn’t really been an option since mid-2017.

US Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said she had revoked an extension of Temporary Protected Status for some 600,000 Venezuelans. Former President Joe Biden's administration had extended deportation relief.

But if you dig deeper into the polling, it turns out that support for mass deportations varies a lot depending on how the question is asked, making it tricky to assess how Americans really feel about what Trump is doing — and how they will react to it.

In a series of executive orders Wednesday, Gov. Greg Abbott ordered state agencies to cooperate with President Donald Trump’s mass deportation efforts and directed the state’s criminal justice agency to identify land and facilities that could be used for detaining and deporting undocumented migrants.