With the drop in mass deportations and the efforts by the Trump Admin to ‘tone down’ the ICE immigrant enforcement actions in the media?
Trump hardcore WingNut’s feel betrayed….
The Reality IS that the head of the effort Stephen Miller has NOT gotten anywhere near his goal of kicking out a million migrants a year….
Trump rode the anti-immigrant horse in last years election…
But the horse has gone out to pasture….
Trump & Co. have the Democrats holding up the Homeland Budget fro some limit’s on the anti-immigrant enforcement efforts….
Trump’s people, aware that they will be losing the US House next year…
Are seeking to ram a 3 year spending increase for Miller to have….
We’ll see….
Them polling numbers do NOT support mass deportations and people gonna get voted on the situation in about 6 months…
Some conservatives say President Trump is flirting with betraying his biggest campaign promise on mass deportations — and the voters who put him there.
Why it matters: The White House is backing away from mass deportation rhetoric ahead of the midterms, infuriating the once-fringe immigration hardliners who considered Trump their last shot at reversing decades of mass migration.
- “Our basic goal of the Mass Deportation Coalition is to actually provide Trump with what we call kind of a right flank, saying, ‘No, Mr. President, you’re listening to the wrong people,'” Mark Morgan, the former head of ICE and Customs and Border Protection, told Axios.
The big picture: The Mass Deportation Coalition, led by the Oversight Project’s Mike Howell, spans GOP think tanks like the Heritage Foundation, newer advocacy groups like the Immigration Accountability Project, and a number of Young Republican clubs.
- They believe they still have public support on their side to persuade Trump to stick to his campaign promise, despite the fatal shootings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti and numerous other use-of-force incidents.
- In their view, it’s the wealthy donors, big business and industry groups who are out of line with the public.
- “If Trump had said what industry wanted [on the campaign trail], ‘I’m going to keep the illegals here so you can have cheap labor,’ he would not be in the White House,” Howell said. “He’d be in a prison cell right now.”
Zoom in: “The President has only gotten pressure in his face to tone down the enforcement,” Howell, a former Homeland Security official in Trump’s first term, told Axios….
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- The coalition is pushing for what it calls Phase 2 — at least 1 million deportations per year.
Between the lines: The coalition believes top Republicans, including White House staffers, are divided on the issue.
- Stephen Miller, deputy White House chief of staff, is a natural ally for the group, though they say they haven’t met with him.
- Some Republicans in Congress, like Rep. Chip Roy (Texas) and Sen. Mike Lee (Utah), are seen as still committed. And some staff within DHS are also on board and have attended informal meetings with the coalition.
- Their opponents are those with ties to lobbyists and former lobbyists in the administration, Howell said, declining to single out staff by name….
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SUPPORT FOR PRESIDENT TRUMP’S IMMIGRATION POLICIES, CLAIMS
Fifteen months into President Donald Trump’s second term in office, a new national University of Massachusetts Amherst Poll finds public support continuing to erode on his handling of immigration, one of the main issues that drove his successful 2024 campaign.
The poll of 1,000 respondents, conducted March 20-25, finds that a majority (54%) disapproves of how Trump has handled the deportation of undocumented immigrants. Meanwhile, support for a number of the nation’s immigration policies has dropped significantly during the past year: support for deporting undocumented immigrants to a country they are not from has fallen to 13%, down seven points since last July, and support for separating undocumented immigrant parents from their children during immigration enforcement proceedings has fallen seven points since last April, to just 11%.
“Our polling has found that a majority of Americans perceive President Trump’s handling of the issue of immigration in a negative light, a stunning reversal from the first months of Trump’s second presidency, when half of Americans gave the president high marks for his policies designed to respond to undocumented and legal immigration,” says Tatishe Nteta, provost professor of political science at UMass Amherst and director of the poll.
“This U-turn in public sentiment may reflect the president’s mishandling of his push to deport the nation’s estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants, as 6 in 10 Americans express disapproval of how his administration has handled the nationwide protests against his immigration policies, the investigation of the killing of American citizens by ICE officers (59%), and his relations with mayors and governors in states with large immigrant populations (59%),” Nteta continues. “With the 2026 midterm elections on the minds of the Republican Party, a pivot from the Trump administration’s response to the issue of undocumented immigration and nationwide protests may be one solution to the GOP’s increasingly dim chances of retaining control of the U.S. Congress.”….
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