Posted on 04/13/2026 7:26:59 PM PDT by thegagline
A group of conservatives aligned with President Donald Trump is pushing him to aggressively expand immigration enforcement as his administration signals a shift to less deportation rhetoric ahead of the midterm elections, Axios reported.
The Mass Deportation Coalition, a group of immigration law and policy experts, former senior and rank-and-file law enforcement officials, advocates, and supporters that launched in February, last week released a playbook to fulfill the largest deportation push in U.S. history.
“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,'" Morgan told Axios.***
"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, a former Homeland Security official in Trump's first term, told Axios.
"He'd be in a prison cell right now. The president has only gotten pressure in his face to tone down the enforcement," he added.
"The truth is the first year was not a year of mass deportation. A conscious decision was made to go after the worst first, which was — we'll call it — a deviation from the central campaign promise of mass deportations."
White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson told Politico in a statement that the administration's immigration enforcement policy remains unchanged. ***
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According to the Mass Deportation Coalition, 350,000 illegals have been deported during the first year of Trump’s second term. In addition, 72,000 illegals self-deported using the CBP app.
The aforesaid coalition is calling for the Trump administration to now turn its attention to mass deportations of all illegals.
“The truth is the first year was not a year of mass deportation. A conscious decision was made to go after the worst first,
It took awhile to get into this immigration problem and will take time to work it out.
Keep working on the problems first.
I voted for that.
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Realistically, the US has long had a “strong and steady stream” of illegal aliens, based on an unspoken number each year that can be assimilated. Nobody will cite what that number is, and for many years it was almost exclusively Irish and Mexican.
It was a system that worked for years until leftists decided to open the flood gates, and to far less desirable immigrants. Much of the chaos was caused by Sen. Teddy Kennedy.
In any event, the system is now way out of balance. But when it gets closer to the integration point, a LOT of inertia will suddenly materialize as a wall to stop deportations.
Don’t expect this to get a lot of attention, because those pushing for it prefer to stay hidden and work behind the scenes.
Those figures are way off.
Breakdown of Deportations
Deportations: The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) reported more than 605,000 deportations throughout the year.
Self-Deportations: An estimated 1.9 million illegal aliens voluntarily left the U.S., encouraged by the administration’s policies.
I guess they’re not aware of all the empty Amazon warehouses Trump and Human are buying up. After the midterms which Trump desperately needs to win he’s going to start the mass deportations..
Why wait until after the midterms? He isn’t getting any illegal immigrant votes. In fact, starting now could help regarding midterms.
"TRUST THE PLAN!"
Oh, you sweet summer child....
Well they have 2 huge buildings just acquired in n Atlanta. One in Sugar Hill and one in Norcross. Im sure they have to be retro fitted.
I searched and didn’t see the words ‘birthright citizenship’ in there..
That might be a complete game changer that actually forces the Oval Office to officially declare war against the Judidcial Coup Branch of this Swamp Govt, or starts the process of returning Sovereignty to this nation, including who is and who isn’t ultimately supposed to be here.
Neither did I see the immigration lawfare discussed that has slow walked any hope of ‘mass deportation ‘ on a level that one expects with a closed US border and declared invasion.
But the Trump Administration has had to fight a Judicial Coup right along with the other fights against the Swamp Branches of Swamp Govt.
I would have preferred obliteration and draining and bodies piling up but we have to apparently play nice with enemies foreign and domestic here..
I’m with Trump on this one.
We have a fact to deal with: Progressives are willing to forfeit their lives to help the media demagogue immigration enforcement. A dead American in the mix of an immigration raid is vastly effective propaganda - we all know it.
Trump can’t afford a dead American a week before the election. A day before the election. A month before the election. The media isn’t going to let that go. “Bill Smith got killed by ICE, won’t you vote for the democrats” We all KNOW that is how USA Today or whoever operates. It’s exactly what they do.
This is a reality. These American Progressives will commit a death-by-ICE in order to ensure that The Slimes has a wonderful headline in order to gain a different electoral outcome.
We can only hope for mass deportations to resume/begin the day after the election results are all in and then a bad headline won’t matter.
It’s just reality, folks. This is who the progressives are.
F that.
Waiting until after the midterm makes complete sense. A dead meddling American activist won’t play well in the left wing demagogue media.
It is what it is. Everybody wants to sit around with their thumbs up their noses.
How many huge 100,000 rallies have you seen across this country by Trump supporters in favor of enforcement? When Jocelyn Nungaray was murdered by an illegal, where were all the mass rallies?
Laken Riley? Where were the protest?
Sheridan Gorman? Where are the protests RIGHT NOW??????
Our side is essentially lazy. We lose the fight willingly.
We won’t help Trump out we won’t give him additional legitimacy, so he has to do what he has to do to combat the media all on his own, by himself.
We have abandoned Trump. We.
Thank you for posting this.
If we lose in the midterms, this bill will be passed for certain. Trump could veto it if he wanted to, or it is possible there could even be enough votes to override a veto since we have stupid GOP nincompoops supporting this.
Immigration and no middle east wars was at the top of what he campaigned on. A strong showing on this issue before midterms could mitigate some of the negatives regarding the war for midterms.
Oh be quiet. That is ridiculous. Everyone who voted for him was totally behind deportations.
I'll give you a photograph below of what the latest Trump rally looked like after the death of Sheridan Gorman.
We can't not show up then complain about it.
Did Sheridan Gorman and Jocelyn Nungary and Laken Riley deserve more than an empty field and empty seats? I think they did.
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