That’s a stunning acknowledgment that Trump’s forced mass removals are targeting hard-working folks and that those undocumented immigrants aren’t taking Americans’ jobs.
If you doubt this, then go listen to vulnerable House Republicans on the matter. In a new letter that’s gotten almost zero media attention, six of them effectively reveal that they now see Trump’s deportations as a political problem along exactly those lines. Democrats who worry about taking on this issue should ask themselves: If even Republicans are showing fear on it, isn’t it time to drop the skittishness and engage already?
Naturally, the letter goes through the motions of hailing Trump’s glorious toughness and infallibility on immigration. But these Republicans also state that they are “concerned” that Trump’s “limited resources may be stretched to pursue individuals that do not constitute an immediate threat to public safety”:
Consider what this really means. These Republicans are admitting forthrightly that deportations that sweep widely—beyond convicted criminals—take resources away from pursuing the dangerous and violent, and that this makes us less safe, and that this is precisely Trump’s policy.
Now, anyone who understands politics will get that these members are putting out this letter so their local papers will report on how “concerned” they are about removals hitting their districts’ local businesses. In the end, they’ll enthusiastically back whatever Trump does.
The key point here is that to boost those numbers, Trump and Miller have to go after non-criminal migrants. There aren’t enough criminals around to pad the numbers, and targeting non-criminals is less resource-intensive. In other words, Miller is deliberately choosing to focus more resources on non-criminals—and thus away from dangerous criminals. Law enforcement insiders have leaked word of their anger over exactly this.
The public is even souring on deportations more broadly. And as NBC’s Natasha Korecki reports, headlines about deported families and other deeply sympathetic cases are growing more common. If this weren’t becoming a major political problem, vulnerable Republicans would not have to distance themselves from all of it.
Trump has himself now admitted to precisely the same thing as those Republicans did: His mass deportations are sweeping up countless people who make essential contributions to economies and communities, to the detriment of our country. Yet after that admission, we saw only a handful of perfunctory statements from Democrats about it.
But Trump’s own admission—and to some degree that of these vulnerable House Republicans—undercuts that story. As Trump himself concedes, there is not a rush of Americans looking to fill vacancies left by deported immigrants.
Indeed, Trump’s confession arguably undermines the broader zero-sum foundation of the MAGA worldview, which holds that any undocumented immigrant’s gain is an American worker’s loss. The reality is that undocumented immigrants often complement the American workforce. Without realizing it, Trump admitted this himself.
Why can’t Democrats point this out? House Republicans in swing territory have openly demonstrated their vulnerability to these arguments. As they’ve revealed, in places like Miami and the suburbs of Los Angeles and Denver—home to those GOP districts, where control of the House will be decided—opposition to cruel and indiscriminate mass deportations is growing. Trump has unwittingly produced the perfect weapon to make the case. So what’s the hold-up here, Democrats?
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