Surprise: Trump Admin Not Going To Back Down On Immigration Enforcement

Did they think he would?

ICE unlikely to scale back crackdown, sources say, citing Stephen Miller’s promotion

The Trump administration is unlikely to scale back its aggressive crackdown on illegal immigration following the results of the midterm elections, multiple U.S. officials told CBS News, citing the elevation of immigration hawk Stephen Miller as White House chief of staff.

Republicans suffered huge losses across the country on Election Day, including in some historically red states like Texas. Exit polls indicated that immigration was one of the top issues, alongside the economy, among Texas Latinos, who swung heavily toward Democrats. And 58% of voters nationwide said the Trump administration’s deportation crackdown had “gone too far.”

In January, Democratic lawmakers will take control of both chambers of Congress and assume sweeping powers to investigate the administration’s immigration crackdown and its most controversial policies.

They can investigate all they want: unless they can get a bunch of Republicans in the Senate to vote with them there is nothing they can do, especially since Trump can just veto anything they pass.

Still, officials at the Department of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement have not received instructions to reduce immigration enforcement since the election, the sources said, requesting anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the media.

In recent weeks, ICE officials have been instructed to try to carry out around 19,000 arrests per week, or about 2,700 per day, an increase from a prior 2,000 daily arrest target, agency sources told CBS News. That target was set before the midterms.

The U.S. officials cited Miller’s appointment to the top post in the White House as a clear indication the Trump administration is likely to continue ICE’s deportation blitz, as well as its quieter yet far-reaching campaign to sharply restrict legal immigration.

If Trump wraps up the Iran war and moves on from any tariffs, focuses on economic issues the GOP could be in a good spot in 2028, particularly for the White House (my money is on Rubio), and no one will care about deporting illegals, especially since the big actions are done with, as they were more about deterrence. But, it won’t stop. It’s literally the law of the United States.

(KRGV) After Democrats’ overwhelming midterm victories this week, winning candidates spoke of the need, once they are sworn in, to rein in President Donald Trump’s mass deportation machine. Some suggested putting forward a new vision for immigration reform while both houses of Congress are in Democratic control.

Democrats care more about illegals than US citizens. Nothing unusual.