Deporting Illegal Aliens Isn’t Complicated. Don’t Let Democrats Complicate It

The Federalist ^ | February 05, 2026 | Eddie Scarry

[E. Pluribus Unum]

It’s useful, if unserious, for congressional Democrat leaders this week to have issued a list of demands in exchange for votes to fund the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees immigration law enforcement. The administration should see it as a reminder that the default position of Democrats is “pretend to support deporting illegal aliens while overcomplicating the process so as to render it impossible.”

Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, both of New York, published the demands in an open letter on Wednesday, detailing 10 things they say are needed to strike a deal on more DHS funding. “Federal immigration agents cannot continue to cause chaos in our cities,” the letter said, “while using taxpayer money that should be used to make life more affordable for working families.”

That line right there alone exposes Democrats as dishonest. They have no interest in “working families,” as literally every policy they champion, including open borders, is catastrophic for all of them. In any event, they went on to write that it was “critical” to “come together” for the purpose of agreeing on “common sense reforms” to ICE before Democrats would consent to more funding.

Admittedly, among the 10 proposals, a couple aren’t unreasonable, even if Democrats would surely poison-pill whatever legislation attempted to include them. The demands include body camera requirements, for example, which the administration has already initiated. But the bulk of them are explicitly intended to prevent as many illegal alien deportations as possible, starting with the first one, which insists that ICE agents “require verification that a person is not a U.S. citizen before holding them in immigration detention.”

Agents already ask for proof of legal residency before making arrests of unknown subjects — something Democrats...

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government
KEYWORDS: aliens; constituency; democrats; deportation; habitualcomplaining; illegals; perpetualcarping

[No name given]

Deport all illegal aliens right now.

[Vaduz]

Democrat are the leaders in helping communists gain ground to destroy America.

They have been trying to stop Trump from impeachment to bullets for a reason.

[JimRed]

Since Mexico enabled the entry of most of them by allowing caravans to transit their territory to get here, dump them off across the border and let Mexico deal with repatriating them.

[spintreebob]

Trump, Homan, Bovino are seem to be the ones making deporting complicated.

To be in the US is a PRIVILEGE, not a right. Deport immediately murderers, rapists, DUI drivers, Drunk n Disorderly. Their PRIVILEGE is removed. Not their RIGHTS.

Do not put them in DETENTION CENTERS. The more and longer detention Centers, the more likely issues of the right to freedom of speech, press, religion, right to carry arms, etc will arise.

Detention Centers make the process very complicated.

Limit Deporting to Murderers, Rapists, ..... DUI drivers, Drunk n Disorderly. Do not spend time or attention on the non-citizen (or citizen) who mouths off, calls you names, throws rotten fruit at you. They are intentionally trying to suck you in to games of TAR BABY or BRER RABBIT. Don’t fall for their bait.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

You make it seem so simple!

If only you were President! You could just snap your fingers and scrunch your nose and it would all be done!

And nobody would throw up any roadblocks because they would know you wouldn’t put up with it!

[spintreebob]

Back in ‘65 in Chicago I facilitated the removal of several “Drunk n Disorderly” from my neighborhood. But mostly it was the Chicago Police and Dem Precinct Captains who decided who would be given a free ride to Mexico on the bus.

In a precinct the voters would tell the precinct captain or other patronage worker (who sometimes lived in the area, sometimes not) “Juan in the 2d floor apartment is always drunk, causing trouble. To keep the voters, Juan would be sent back on the bus. On occasion a Puerto Rican (a US citizen) would be put on the bus and sent to Mexico. (They all look alike.)

The Chicago Police would be called to a bar fight, a drunk boyfriend beating the crap out of his girlfriend and ... rather than take the guy to court, jail, etc they would just put him in the holding room til the bus was ready to go to Mexico. It was cheaper simpler. Many Chicago Cops did not understand Spanish at that time The Round Trip was basically 1 week.

I was a strong activist against the Chicago machine. But local control worked better than what we have now.

[Fledermaus]

With Republican help.

I’m sick of Senate tradition and rules.

Dump the damn filibuster and blue slip nonsense.

I wish Trump would call out Thune and say DO It. Otherwise Thune should step down as Majority Leader.