
When it comes to immigration, President Trump has been absolutely stalwart.
He’s actually handled immigration so well that it dropped out of the top four or five issues for Americans. It was the number one or number two issue in every poll for Americans during the 2024 election cycle.
Trump was inaugurated and on the same day, everything started to get fixed because he said, we’re going to enforce the border, don’t come here.
People stopped coming.
On Monday, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt announced:
Later this afternoon, President Trump will sign an executive order on law and order and another executive order on sanctuary cities. The first EO will strengthen and unleash America’s law enforcement to pursue criminals and protect innocent citizens. The second EO is centered around protecting American communities from criminal aliens, and it will direct the Attorney General and Secretary of Homeland Security to publish a list of state and local jurisdictions that obstruct the enforcement of federal immigration laws.
All of that is quite good. He signed three executive orders, including one that instructed Attorney General Pam Bondi and the Secretary of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem, to pursue all necessary legal remedies and enforcement measures against so-called sanctuary cities.
Here’s the deal: Local law enforcement cannot be militarized by the federal government under the Posse Comitatus Act to actually enforce federal law. That is not permissible.
However, obstruction of justice, which has been happening in these sanctuary cities, where ICE goes in and you have local law enforcement actively obstructing the effort, declaring they are sanctuary cities and going out of their way to thwart federal law, that is something that the federal government should be cracking down on.
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Another one of these executive orders “aims to bolster legal resources to police officers accused of wrongdoing, and the third seeks to enforce existing laws requiring professional truck drivers to be proficient in English,” according to The New York Times.
President Trump has also been unleashing ICE to go after illegal immigration wherever they find it in significant numbers.
On Monday, CNN reported:
US federal agents early Sunday raided what authorities described as an underground nightclub in Colorado Springs and took into custody more than 100 migrants accused of being in the country illegally, the US Drug Enforcement Administration said.
Jonathan Pullen, the special agent in charge, said, “What was happening inside was significant drug trafficking, prostitution, crimes of violence. We seized a number of guns in there.”
The raid had been planned for months, according to Pullen. “During the surveillance, investigators documented drug trafficking, prostitution and the presence of people suspected to be members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua, the international gang MS-13, and the Hells Angels, Pullen said,” CNN added.
This was a very large raid. Attorney General Pam Bondi, in describing the nature of the raid, explained that 170 calls to 911 had been made over the last several years. “Wouldn’t you think that would’ve been a red flag? Nothing happened. Guns, shootings, [aggravated] batteries, nothing happened,” she told Fox News.
Their work on immigration is the upside of the Trump administration. They’ve been doing an excellent job, even though courts have been attempting to hamstring them pretty much every step of the way. The Trump administration has been completely thorough. They are doing a good job on all of this, and they’re being very aggressive in their public-facing about it as well.
According to Axios, “Trump administration officials late Sunday began placing dozens of posters of arrested unauthorized immigrants along the White House driveway. The posters — which read “ARRESTED” — specify various crimes linked to the pictured immigrants and have the White House’s official logo at the bottom.”
These posters were designed to reiterate that the goal here is to deport criminal illegal immigrants.
Immigration is still President Trump’s most popular issue.
It should be.

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