President-elect Donald Trump has made it clear: His administration will aggressively pursue “mass deportations.”

States may seem powerless in the face of such an agenda. Immigration is the purview of the federal government, which, in just over two months, will seek to flood communities with Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers (and perhaps the US military) to detain and deport as many people as possible, whether those communities and their state and local officials like it or not.

But deportations are a logistical game, and state and local governments hold some of the cards. For a removal campaign as massive as what Trump is promising, states can aid ICE’s efforts to find, apprehend, and lock up deportable people. Or they can throw a wrench in the agency’s plans.

Despite New York state’s immigrant-friendly reputation, the jury’s out on which role it will play. The direction it goes depends heavily on whether state lawmakers and Governor Kathy Hochul take quick action.

On the surface, it looks like a clear enough story. New York mirrored a national lurch to the right that is sending Donald Trump back to the White House with a decisive margin. In the famously blue state, Trump performed better than any Republican at the top of the ticket since 1988. In New York City, he claimed 30 percent of the vote — nearly double his share in 2016. It was enough for pollster Nate Silver to conclude on Wednesday that “the story of Trump’s win was foretold in New York City.”

But look more closely, and a wrinkle in that story emerges.

The state is far behind on building new clean energy, and still has to contend with surging electricity demand. That’s leading some to conclude that New York needs to rethink its climate mandates. Could new gas plants be on the table?