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As President Trump prepares for his second term, one crucial question on people’s minds will be if he can successfully achieve his policy objectives. Chief among those goals will be securing the border and effectively enforcing immigration law (read: deportations). He must also tackle violent crime, drug and human trafficking, and foreign criminal gangs, consequences of four years of open borders under Biden. In particular, he’ll face the challenge of focusing on how the Biden Administration dismantled internal immigration enforcement. How can President Trump meet his security goals and exercise control over these powerful law enforcement agencies without countenancing their historic bad behavior? He should begin by leveraging a unique advantage he developed in his first term—exceptional relationships with local law enforcement agencies, especially local sheriffs.