All three cited sources were independently re-fetched and are real, live, and accurately quoted. (1) The Jan. 20, 2025 executive order 'Protecting the American People Against Invasion' on whitehouse.gov is genuine and contains the quoted directive to 'ensure the efficient and expedited removal of aliens,' plus directives to 'jointly establish Homeland Security Task Forces (HSTFs) in all States nationwide' and to 'authorize State and local law enforcement officials...to perform the functions of immigration officers.' This is unambiguous personal, day-one leadership of the effort by the promising politician himself, not a single supporting vote — which is the defining test for CHAMPIONED. (2) TRAC (Syracuse University), 'Taking Stock: Trump Administration Record on Detention and Removals,' Nov. 24, 2025, is real and states total reported Trump-administration removals were 290,603, 'just 7 percent more than were removed in FY 2024' (271,484) — i.e. only a modest increase over the predecessor administration despite vastly greater resources. (3) PolitiFact's nonpartisan MAGA-Meter entry for this exact promise is live and still rated 'In the Works' as of its Jan. 23, 2026 update, which reports irreconcilable counts (DHS claims ~605,000 removals since Jan. 20, 2025; UCLA researchers count ~350,000; TRAC counts ~234,000 Jan.-Sept. 2025) and states Trump 'still hasn't hit his goal of 1 million deportations a year.' FULL is therefore not supportable on independent evidence: the promise's own explicit benchmark — larger than Eisenhower's 1954 operation — is not verified by any independent counter, and DHS has stopped publishing removals in the transparent monthly format prior administrations used, so the administration's own 605,000 + '1.9 million self-deportations' figures cannot be treated as established fact. PARTIAL (+0.5) was considered as the adversarial alternative, but it undersells the sponsorship dimension: the scale definition reserves CHAMPIONED for a politician who actively led and drove the effort even if it was not fully enacted, and a president who issued the founding executive order, stood up nationwide task forces, deputized state and local police, and pursued third-country removal agreements plainly meets that bar. Symmetry check: a president of the opposite party who signed a day-one executive order driving a signature promise, materially expanded the program, but fell short of the historic benchmark he set would also be rated CHAMPIONED under this scale — so the label is not party-lenient. Note: the prior rationale's assertions of a 'roughly 75% rise in detention population' and 'record ICE arrests reported in June 2026' are NOT supported by any of the cited sources and have been dropped as unverified; the outcome does not depend on them. Confidence is held at 0.75 rather than higher because the most recent independently verified data point is Jan. 2026, leaving roughly a six-month evidence gap to the present.