Donald Trump made a lot of big promises in his campaign, and rightly so: the vast majority of surveyed Americans think the nation is heading in the wrong direction. To that end, Donald Trump not only won handily in the Electoral College, but he took the popular vote as well, marking the first time a Republican has done so since 2004.
As I said yesterday, that's as close to a mandate as any candidate can ask for. The GOP would do well not to squander this opportunity.
Part of that opportunity lies in toeing the line and not crumbling under the inevitable caterwauling of the Left and some spineless Republicans who will oppose Donald Trump's agenda at every turn.
And that opposition will be most fierce and vocal when it comes to illegal immigration and his plans to deport them.
🚨 REPORT: Plans already being drawn up in the Trump team for mass deportations - WSJ
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) November 9, 2024
The plan is: first, target the ~1.3 million illegals who have already received orders of deportation from a court, along with illegals who have "other criminal convictions or charges"
More from The Wall Street Journal:
Advisers to President-elect Donald Trump are drawing up plans to carry out his mass deportation pledge, including discussing how to pay for it and weighing a national emergency declaration that would allow the incoming administration to repurpose military assets to detain and remove migrants.
The behind-the-scenes discussions, which started months before the election and have picked up in the days since Trump’s victory, include policy changes required to increase deportations, according to people working on the presidential transition, members of Congress and others close to the president-elect.
Among the changes: revoking a Biden administration policy directing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement not to pursue immigrants in the country illegally who haven’t committed other crimes, and making changes to the immigration court system to speed up cases.
This is a reasonable place to start. Those illegals already have orders to deport. Additionally, any illegal who is arrested for crimes of any kind going forward should be automatically deported.
But watch how the media narrative unfolds around this.
And watch how the same people who tell you Donald Trump is a fascist and Kamala Harris was going to win the election insist Trump's immigration plans are wildly unpopular.
They'll start, of course, by playing the 'it costs too much' card:
Trump said deportation is happening and cost doesn’t matter 🔥 pic.twitter.com/3pDixDAS5M
— E (@ElijahSchaffer) November 9, 2024
The media will, of course, ignore the fact illegal immigration is costing us taxpayers $150 billion a year. Something I told you about here, courtesy The New York Post.
Additionally, what's the price tag on the life of a woman like Laken Riley? Or a girl like Jocelyn Nungaray? Those are just two of the women killed by illegal immigrants. I don't have the time or the heart to list the other victims.
Kamala Harris, as border czar, let hundreds of thousands of criminals into this country. Criminals convicted of rape, sexual assault, burglary, and homicide.
We have no obligation to keep, house, and feed these criminals.
But the media -- who, I'll remind you, swore Kamala was going to win -- will not tell those stories. They will not highlight women like Rachel Morin, the Maryland mother of five who was also killed by an illegal immigrant.
Instead, they'll try to highlight families and gin up sympathy for them.
60 minutes: Is there a way to carry out mass deportation without separating families?
— Tim Young (@TimRunsHisMouth) November 6, 2024
Tom Homan: "Of course there is. Families can be deported together."
Put Tom Homan in charge of ICE! pic.twitter.com/fcS48fKu41
It is good to want a better life in America. It is not good to circumvent our laws to do so. While they may be otherwise law abiding, they broke federal immigration laws and need to be held accountable for it.
It’s not a question of ‘hard-working immigrants’. If they are here illegally, they need to be deported.
— Randall Brink (@randallbrink) November 9, 2024
Some (RINO) Republicans try to tone down Trump's mass deportation threats https://t.co/FYln1V232c
That being said, the plan is clearly to address the 1.3 million illegal immigrants who have deportation orders and criminal convictions. It is unlikely that families will be deported en masse.
There will be some members of the GOP who don't have the intestinal fortitude to do what needs to be done, but make no mistake: Donald Trump won not only the popular vote, but he saw historic shifts among Latino voters.
They know exactly what they voted for, and failure to follow through on his deportation plans will be more detrimental to the GOP than taking a hardline stance.
The media can pretend otherwise. They will scream about racism and fascism and portray deportation as a political non-starter. Some Republicans and a whole lot of Leftists will buy it.
That same media also told us Kamala Harris was going to win last week.
If you believed the media then, you have to be wondering why Donald Trump is forming his Cabinet and policies and not Kamala Harris.
It's because they lied.
And they'll lie about immigration, too.
