As the president increases pressure to boost deportations of undocumented immigrants, Connecticut's Attorney General says he's working hard to protect them here in our state.

William Tong was my guest this past week on Power and Politics.

Agents at Immigration and Customs Enforcement are under increasing pressure as President Donald Trump has expressed anger that the amount of people deported in the first weeks of his administration is not higher.

In order to fulfill Trump's Inauguration Day promise of "millions and millions" of deportations, the Trump administration would have to be deporting over 2,700 immigrants every day to reach 1 million in a year.

Arrests do not always equal immediate detentions, much less deportations. The White House says of the more than 8,000 immigrants arrested in the first two weeks of the Trump administration, 461 were released. Tong says there should be safe places for immigrants in Connecticut.

"We're not going stand in the way right of the federal government doing its proper and lawful job but when you start going into sensitive places like schools and churches, in courthouses, and you make people feel unsafe, you know that has a ripple effect and it disturbs the proper functioning of a school or a courthouse, right frankly a house of worship," said Tong.

Tong says it’s important for immigrants to know their rights and there are several agencies in Connecticut that can help.