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Once he is inaugurated as the 47th president of the United States, Donald Trump plans to complete the wall on the southern border and deport millions of illegal aliens in the country.

“With the Biden ‘Open Border’s Policy’ I said, many times during Rallies, and elsewhere, that Radical Islamic Terrorism, and other forms of violent crime, will become so bad in America that it will become hard to even imagine or believe,” Trump said in a Truth Social post. “That time has come, only worse than ever imagined.

“Joe Biden is the WORST PRESIDENT IN THE HISTORY OF AMERICA, A COMPLETE AND TOTAL DISASTER,” Trump added. “What he and his group of Election Interfering ‘thugs’ have done to our Country will not soon be forgotten!”

The exact number of illegal aliens in the country is open to debate. The American Immigration Council estimated there were roughly 11 million in the United States as of 2022, while a Yale estimate found the number could be more than 22 million.

The National Immigration Forum estimates Ohio has 107,000 “undocumented immigrants.”

The Trump Administration could find an ally in Ohio’s leaders.

“Ohio should always be a place where the rule of law matters, so making sure that we hold people accountable along,” Rep. Ron Ferguson, R-Wintersville, told Ohio.news. “We don’t let criminal activity be pervasive, that’s really a big focus. So whatever we can do to really support President Trump is going to be important.”

Ohio Rep. Jennifer Gross, R-West Chester, said Ohio has about six unofficial sanctuary cities.

“So one of the things that we need to do is we need to make any funding … that we send from the state level, not available to those cities that are enabling illegal aliens to take residence in their cities,” Gross told Ohio.news.

“Additionally, we had a bill that we proposed that we will move forward that would not allow low-income housing tax credits to be used for illegal aliens,” the lawmaker added. “Those should be used for tax-paying Ohioans who have earned the privilege of being Ohio citizens. And so, that’s what I would say, and a good place to start.”

The Center for Immigration Studies has identified Franklin, Hamilton, Lorain and Mahoning counties as sanctuary cities.

In 2017, Columbus City Council members codified an executive order Mayor Andrew J. Ginther issued, making it illegal to deny someone services based on their immigration status. However, it did not formally designate Ohio’s capital city as a sanctuary city.

Last month, according to The Columbus Dispatch, Ginther, president of the U.S. Conference of Mayors, sidestepped questions about Trump’s deportation plans.

“Do I agree with mass deportation? See here’s the deal. I’ve been mayor when Trump was president before. I’m not going to respond to every tweet, not going to clap back at every comment the president makes,” the newspaper quoted Ginther as saying.

Last year, state Rep. Josh Williams, R-Sylvania, sponsored House Bill 666, the “Protecting Ohio Communities Act.” It would have required state and local authorities to cooperate with federal officials in enforcing federal immigration law and mandated that law enforcement agencies honor federal detainer requests.

It also included a provision similar to federal law to make certain aliens ineligible for state or local public benefits. Lawmakers did not pass the measure.

“President Trump has made it clear we will prioritize public safety threats and national security threats first and that’s what the focus would be,” NBC News quoted incoming border czar Tom Homan as telling Fox News Channel last month. “There’s thousands of gang members, illegal alien gang members we’re going to be looking for. Now, I’m going to say if you’re in the country illegally, you shouldn’t feel comfortable, absolutely not. I won’t feel comfortable.”