Posted on 07/23/2025 4:53:59 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
In the aftermath of Donald Trump’s 2024 election, there was a mandate for him to stop the invasion across our borders. Overwhelmingly, the public wanted illegal aliens to be removed from our country, particularly those who were criminals. That’s when the controversy began:
President Donald Trump’s signature promise during his campaign was to carry out the ‘largest deportation’ operation in U.S. history, targeting all migrants “who violated the law coming into this country.”
Since anyone living in the U.S. without legal permission has broken civil immigration law, Trump would have to deport all of the 11 million to 12 million immigrants living without legal consent in the U.S., not just people who have committed serious crimes. Most immigrants living in the country illegally have been here longer than 10 years, so many longer-term residents would be deported.
In fact, since January, not long after his election, President Trump had already made clear that his initial focus would be on illegal aliens guilty of violent, truly reprehensible crimes:
‘Some of them are so bad, we don’t even trust their countries to hold them because we don’t want them coming back,’ Trump said. ‘We’re going to send them to Guantanamo.’
He added, ‘It’s a tough place to get out of.’
The president said the move will bring the U.S. one step closer to ‘eradicating the scourge’ of migrant crime in communities, once and for all.
So, Trump made clear that the focus would be on removing criminal illegal aliens. He also stated that illegal aliens without criminal records who were found with those criminals would also be arrested.
In addition to lying about Trump’s promises, leftists have been demonizing ICE agents. Legislators and NGOs have demanded that ICE agents remove their masks and display identification. ICE agents aren’t wearing masks for fun or to appear intimidating. Instead, they’ve...
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0bama deported 2.5 million illegal immigrants. And that doesn’t consider those who self deported.
Trump should mention that every chance he has!
A little disappointed to see the old “11 million” chestnut dragged out in a conservative publication. Hell, Obama was using that number when he was President. I think 25 million is conservative after Biden opened the border
Deport them all. I don’t want my hard earned taxes going to educating their children and paying for the whole families medical care. Try going to any other country and getting all the freebies we provide illegals here in the USA. Ain’t going to happen.
‘Deport them all’
Pronto!
Just have to read their stand BS nonsense like:
"... all of the 11 million to 12 million immigrants living without legal consent in the U.S...
More deep state BS propaganda that is always spewing out of their website...
That's the tip off: "10 to 12 million" and "immigrants"...
All their usual patent anti-Trump BS propaganda!
BETCHA THE NUMBER IS MUCH CLOSER TO 60 MILLION.
20 MILLION HAS BEEN AN ACCEPTED NUMBER SINCE THE LATE 60’S-—
LONG BEFORE BIDEN”S OPEN BORDERS & OBAMA’S “WELCOME” BILLBOARDS AT THE SOUTHERN BORDER.
OBAMA ALSO PUT UP “WELCOME” BILLBOARDS AT THE SOUTHERN BORDER.
that number is from 1997
the amnesty was in 1986
eleven years later there are 11 million
1 million per year
1987-2020 is 24 million
biden did 2 million per year
2021-2024 is 8 million
total 43 million give or take
AMF!
That’s the first thing that I noticed. That 11 million figure has been used since sometime in the 1990s, if memory serves me correctly. There have been one to 2 million people coming across the border pretty much every year since then, with the exception of Trump‘s first term when the number was lower, and Biden‘s term when the number was substantially higher. Certainly some of those illegals have died in the intervening 30 or so years, but it is almost certain that the number is somewhere between 25 and 40 million at this point.
Ike got them all Operation Wet Back.
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