Mr. President, the Facts Show America Needs More Deportations—Not Amnesty

Trump was elected with a strong mandate to secure the border and remove people living here illegally. America can't afford to have two pro-amnesty parties.

President Donald Trump recently shocked his base when he suggested in a post-midterm election interview that he was open to making a deal with Democrats to give legal status and even citizenship to an unspecified number of illegal aliens. The last thing he should do is weaken his immigration policies. In fact, he should instead step up deportations.

The White House insisted Trump was not talking about “amnesty” on 60 Minutes, but did confirm that Trump is willing to cut a deal that would safeguard illegal aliens with jobs who’d lived at least 10 years in America. 

That would undermine not only his previous agenda but federal immigration laws. Showing weakness to Democrats is always disastrous because they never live up to their end of the bargain and are aggressively ruthless in pursuing their own goals. Ronald Reagan learned that lesson too late when he made an amnesty deal with backstabbing Democrats to protect illegal aliens who’d “put down roots.” 

There’s never been a compromise with Democrats that didn’t hurt Republicans and America’s freedoms in some long-lasting way. And in this case, Trump would not be assisting Republicans to future election wins. He would almost certainly be helping Democrats rig our elections permanently in their favor. 

Illegal aliens won’t vote Republican just because Trump allowed some of them amnesty. Trump will lose voters who prioritize border security. And Dems will add yet more names to the millions of migrants they've registered to vote in recent years.

Americans Still Support Deportations, But Democrats Found an Election Rig

There is data to back up these points. Fox News voter surveys from October 19 through November 3 showed that 89 percent of Republican voters believe immigration is the most important issue facing America. Fully 57 percent of GOP voters said immigration enforcement policies were “crucial” in their voting decisions. 

Most tellingly, in two different rounds of questioning with massive sample sizes of over 39,000 people, Fox found that 92–96 percent of Republican voters approve of how Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is doing its job. 

ICE arrests and deportations are tremendously popular among GOP voters, and Democrats aren’t going to vote GOP just because Trump deports fewer people.

At the start of this year, a McLaughlin & Associates poll found 66 percent of voters—including nearly 59 percent of Hispanics—support mass deportations of illegal border crossers. That same poll found 80 percent of voters—again, including 67 percent of Hispanics—support escalating penalties for employers who hire illegal aliens. 

In June, a Harvard University/Harris poll revealed public support for deporting criminal illegal aliens had jumped to 80 percent of voters. That includes 71 percent of Democrats and 79 percent of independents, with support for deportations increasing across all political parties. 

Simply put, Trump’s immigration policies are popular.

So how did Republicans lose the midterm election so badly? Well, immigration wasn’t the only issue on the ballot, of course. There is also some preliminary evidence suggesting election fraud in multiple states such as Michigan, California, Minnesota, Texas, Arizona, New York, Alaska, and Georgia, among others. Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin said that the Trump administration is looking into at least 300,000 election fraud cases with the list growing daily, just to give an idea of the scale of election fraud. But digging into government data on new voter registrations in states that do not verify citizenship shines more light on this problem.

In Texas, for instance, a state that was a hotspot of the Biden border crisis and which doesn’t verify citizenship at voter registration, there were almost three million new voter registrations between 2022 and 2024, according to a U.S. Election Assistance Commission report. The only state with more new voter registrations than Texas during that time was California, which also doesn’t verify registrants' citizenship status. 

Integrity First Alliance President Shiloh Marx published analysis showing about 20 million new voter registrations in 37 states that didn’t require documentary citizenship proof for voter registration. And while Republican votes for this year stayed about where they were in 2022 (55.6 million versus 54.2 million), Democrats somehow gained over 19 million votes (70.4 million versus 51.3 million), based on data that writer Kevin Bass and President Trump each posted. 

The Biden administration changed the 2020 Census count to include illegal aliens for congressional apportionment and flew or bussed illegal aliens to red states like Georgia and Ohio. Lo and behold, those states suddenly flipped blue. It sure explains why Democrats freak out at the idea of voter ID and proof-of-citizenship for voting, doesn’t it?

Rewarding Illegality Betrays American Citizens

It's obvious that granting illegal aliens U.S. citizenship would only advance Democrats’ dreams of rigging Congress and the Electoral College in their favor—forever. Nor should Trump allow other deceptive arguments to persuade him. 

First, a country cannot run on subjective exceptions to national security laws, especially when those “exceptions” run into the hundreds of thousands or even millions. Too many people hysterically think of Juan the landscaper, or Maria the hotel janitor, or that nice taco chef who didn’t speak English. But no nation—especially one as massive as the United States—can simply trash its laws because some law-breakers are nice to customers. 

Justice must be blind, which means accepting the consequences when one breaks the law. The reality of criminality is that it always ends up causing tragedies and creating complicated situations. But that doesn’t mean we should decriminalize unjust and dangerous behavior. Nor can we ever trust illegal aliens not to break other laws—in fact most of them do, as DHS General Counsel James Percival told CBS News in October, because one illegal action almost inevitably leads to others.

Every illegal alien has already committed a crime worthy of deportation, and every illegal alien employee has taken a job that an American could have had. Don’t believe anyone who tells you Americans won’t take landscaping or construction or janitorial or fast food jobs—I debunked that in a previous piece here for Restoration News. 

It’s just that many companies prefer illegal alien employees because they’ll take lower wages and poor or abusive working conditions. Donald Trump himself and other members of his administration, including Vice President JD Vance and HUD Secretary Scott Turner, have explained that illegal immigration drove housing costs up by 30 percent, made a tough job market worse, and increased crime. 

In July, Trump boasted about opening up 24,000 trucking jobs for Americans by firing illegal aliens. None of that has changed just because Democrats won an election they were already expected to win. Under the Biden administration, Americans were losing jobs as all net job gains went to migrants. Both illegal migration and legal visa programs like H-1B are disastrous for American workers. And in spite of job gains in the last two years, it is still a tough job market for most young people.

After the Trump administration began deporting millions of illegal aliens and closing the border—meaning net migration to U.S. cities dropped significantly—urban crime also fell. Fentanyl deaths dropped by 22 percent between 2024 and 2025. 

Yet the illegal aliens who are still here continue to commit crimes, including deadly crimes, and among the killers are numerous workers who “put down roots”—truck drivers. White-Collar Workers of America cited National Highway Traffic Safety Administration data to state that illegal alien truck drivers are linked to a horrifying 814 crash-related deaths annually. 

ICE has arrested numerous illegal alien workers in industries from corrections officers to rideshare driving to wholesale to trucking to aerospace to hotel hospitality to small businesses. These aliens committed rape, child abuse, murder, pedophilia, assault, DUI, fraud, child trafficking, and drug trafficking (among other crimes). 

Often these illegal alien workers had multiple felonies on their records. Just because an alien seems to be a friendly cashier or satisfactory stocker doesn’t mean he isn’t a violent or vicious criminal. Again, this is why openness to giving illegal alien employees a path to citizenship doesn’t take key facts into account.

There’s also the reality that living in America for decades—i.e. “putting down roots”—does not mean that one has gratitude for America or respect for her laws. In fact, if an illegal alien has lived here for 10 or 20 or 30 years without obtaining citizenship, that’s a pretty good indication he wouldn’t make a good citizen. It means either that he has so little interest in honoring our country's laws that he didn’t bother to apply for citizenship, or he has a disqualifying crime on his record that would render him inadmissible for citizenship. 

For example, Miguel Alonso Maldonado Soriano entered the U.S. in 1999. In 2014, he received Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) status—which gives carte blanche to alien minors—from the Obama administration. The Trump administration did not renew Soriano's DACA status. Last month, he took a sledgehammer to the historic Iwo Jima memorial outside Quantico Marine Base, beheading a Marine depicted in the famous statue and causing incredible damage. 

In May, ICE reported that Mexican illegal alien and serial rapist Leonel Catalan Torreblanca had been committing assaults in America since 2013. He faces 30 charges, including rape and strangulation. Honduran illegal alien Bairon Posada-Hernandez entered America first in 2008, and authorities deported him four times. Each time, Posada-Hernandez returned to America, and in March, he shoved an 83-year-old Air Force veteran onto New York subway tracks, killing the vet. 

The examples are endless.

It is clearly a national security threat to give illegal aliens—even ones who have lived here for years and have jobs—a pathway to citizenship without making them leave and return the legal way. It is completely unjust to reward illegal aliens for their crimes, not only to native-born Americans but to legal immigrants who spent years following U.S. immigration law. 

If anything, the midterm election results, new voter registration data, and Americans’ views on deportations should teach Trump and the GOP that we need even stricter crackdowns and increased deportations in the next two years. Republicans cannot afford to give up ahead of the 2028 presidential election. Our republic needs saving from those who would destroy it. 

Mr. President, please finish the job.

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