.@SecMullinDHS seems to get tripped up in this segment defending his comments re legalizing DACA recipients. He suggests Trump floated a deal in 2016 and the Dems refused it (Trump wasn’t president in 2016) and also says DACAs not speaking English is a reason they should be perhaps legalized … ???
It has been so frustrating for me to hear pundits & political analysts on both sides of the aisle, declaring the sharp decline in Hispanic support for GOP is due to immigration. It’s actually insulting. We are not obsessed with immigration, especially 2nd & 3rd generation.
It’s simple! Hispanics are largely working class people with larger than average families. It’s the economy, stupid!!!
Globalists, open border types & greedy self-serving Chamber of Commerce types who benefit from illegal cheap labor are deliberately lying to muddy the waters & reverse policies that keep blue collar wages high.
As for the excesses, yes, fix them! But also, a booming economy (no war), makes people very forgiving about other problems.
From May in @theblaze
It was apparent that the refusal to denounce the Dignidad Act specifically as amnesty was going to be a long term problem.
We can't make fun of libs for not knowing what a woman is if we don't know what an amnesty is.
I don’t expect Trump to do it, but thinking amnesty is going to recover Hispanic GOP support is a ridiculous miscalculation and will backfire tremendously.
The main issue there is the economy. And yeah Noem’s theatrics at DHS didn’t help but the issue isn’t the deportations themselves. 45% of Hispanics voted for the most pro-deportation campaign in history! And simply “deporting the criminals” was the Kamala Harris position btw
Amnesty is for the donor class, from the agriculture to hospitality to construction industries. It doesn’t move the needle electorally other than demoralizing the base further.
BREAKING: TRUMP SAYS HIS DEPORTATIONS MIGHT HAVE BEEN “TOO TOUGH” 😳
Says a deal with Democrats is “DOABLE” 💣
“I DON’T WANT ANY DEAL… the country doesn’t want that either” 🛑
AMNESTY would be a BETRAYAL of the base 😡
Reagan did it in ‘86 and Republicans haven’t won CALIFORNIA since. Do it again and TEXAS is GONE 📉🔥
The policy was not too tough. There need to be more deportations, not fewer. The mistake was staging deportation theater with Kristi Noem out on ICE raids dressed like Tomb Raider. Don’t call so much attention to it. Don’t have government accounts on X posting spicy memes about it. Just go do it, efficiently and professionally. Is that option even being considered?
I wrote this before the amnesty announcement (ignore the politicians who will say it is not amnesty)
NOTHING is needed from Congress for Trump to keep his promise.
Stephen Miller has the keys. Now what about the deportations? https://t.co/fse4iOKrwq
NEW: Sec. Mullin told me this morning he is open to a bipartisan immigration deal that includes DACA permanent legal status. But draws red line on amnesty.
Mullin told Trump that Dems (ie No Labels) have called him and Trump encouraged him to engage.
“The president said ‘let’s start working with them and then let’s meet at some point.’”
W/ @MyahWard
https://t.co/QeIITgGlL9
Business interests shouldn’t get to decide whether immigration law applies to them.
@MHowellTweets tells POLITICO what sort of message Stephen Miller needs to send to businesses employing illegal immigrants.
Steven Miller's immigration policy has taken arguably the GOP's best issue and made it a liability. He, second only to Trump himself, is responsible for blowing up the multiracial coalition that elected Trump in 2024 and sparked the GOP's dream of a multiracial working class coalition. He's also probably the single most despised person in American politics. So of course, Trump appointed him Chief of Staff after getting humiliated at the polls. It's so perfect.
BREAKING: DHS confirms to @FoxNews that a suspect arrested by US Secret Service last night in a stolen vehicle near the White House with a rifle, two handguns, and ammo is a Venezuelan illegal alien who threatened to kill President Trump and was previously caught and released at the Texas border in 2024 by the Biden administration.
Per DHS, last night, Secret Service agents saw a man acting suspiciously in a vehicle on Constitution Ave. near the White House. When agents approached it, the suspect, Ronny Yordrix Guanipa Chrinos, told them he was hearing voices in his head telling him to come to DC to kill President Trump. A search of the car revealed he had an AR-15 style rifle, a Mac 10, a Glock-43x, and ammo. The car was also stolen.
He was arrested and charged with carrying a rifle outside of a home or business, three counts of unlawful transportation of a firearm, three counts of unregistered firearms, three counts of unregistered ammunition, possession of certain dangerous weapons, carrying a pistol without a license, unauthorized use of a motor vehicle, theft, and receiving stolen property.
ICE has placed a detainer on him with US Marshals, who currently have him in custody. DHS says he crossed the TX border illegally in March 2024 and was released into the country by the Biden admin.
DHS Sec. Mullin is praising the Secret Service agents:
“Thanks to our brave Secret Service officers, this illegal alien with three firearms in his vehicle was arrested near the White House before he could harm anyone,” said Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin. “On top of threatening President Trump, he is an illegal alien from Venezuela who had no business being in our country in the first place. This is just an example of the incredible work done by the men and women of the Secret Service every single day."
Stephen Miller says that the Trump administration is 'actively looking at' suspending habeas corpus, the constitutional right to challenge unlawful detention
Whitmire should look Jocelyn Nungaray's mother in the eye and defend this.
Explain why an innocent American should have to be robbed, raped, or murdered by an illegal alien to justify Houston's cooperation with ICE.
I have signed an executive order directing HPD to no longer contact ICE for nonviolent offences, helping reduce fear in our communities. Thank you to Chief Diaz, our state and local leaders for their collaboration. A step toward building a stronger Houston. Let’s Go to Work.