An Appeal To Pragmatism
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The results of government policy tend to show best at a county and state level. Areas that pass immigration enforcement laws will experience better deportation progress, but they need people willing to speak and vote for that to happen. All the talk about the White House needing to do more must be backed up by people at a lower level doing more too, whether through GOP politics, independent lobbying or local law enforcement.
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Tom Homan: 'If you think the numbers were good last year, wait 'til this year. I see a lot of language out there saying President Trump is backing off of mass deportations. He is not. (Our numbers are better than the Eisenhower numbers)

We have sanctuary cities and Congress in the way, but we are suing the hell out of those. We will get the numbers we need.'
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It's very sad to see someone who was an icon of sorts in right-wing memes end up an impotent, underinformed or dishonest version of a liberal with 'White' interests on the side.

If you dislike Trump so much that you'll lie about reality itself and side with the people who hate you, you've probably lived past your purpose.
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Net immigration into America is down across the board, including H-1Bs and student visas. Meanwhile, migrant detention and departure are being pushed past historic highs and can climb farther with better state cooperation.

You don't need to be a sycophant to acknowledge sincere progress, but if you choose to lie you're practically worthless.
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This is the first White House in 60 to 90 years that remotely celebrates reversing and reducing immigration at all.
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A reminder that denaturalization is historically very rare; only 305 cases filed between 1990 and 2017. Trump's first term beat that with 170 cases filed throughout 2017 to 2020.

This current term the DOJ is pursuing dozens to hundreds of denaturalization cases a month if possible, an extreme escalation. That will take serious legal work in the background of the news. Over two dozen denaturalization filings were announced on the DOJ news list so far.
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New executive order requires federal contracts to be made with a prohibition on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) practices and any activity that may discriminate such as a preference for non-White causes or clients.

Likewise the Attorney General is directed to give priority to charging DEI violations and the Federal Acquisition Regulatory Council must end provisions that oppose this.
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President Trump's FCC is looking into the problem of foreign call centers, foreign customer service from non-Western countries
President Trump's FCC has approved a rule to restrict and regulate language proficiency against call centers and encourage onshoring away from foreign countries like the many in South Asia.

https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-proposes-call-center-onshoring-english-proficiency-requirements
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The White House has announced an app I would recommend making an ICE app. Daily arrest reports, on-board tipline, pics of the migrants and their crimes, locations of sanctuary cities. A map of ICE detention. Tab that says 'Is your police department with ICE?' and pulls up 287g agreements, or county rulings. We need a direct tab for people to be in the know on immigration (besides following Appeal to Pragmatism.)
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a legislative push to make the process of denaturalization quicker and easier.
This morning Pam Bondi has said she is pushing for a law change to make the process of denaturalization easier, faster and much much larger.

Exactly what we need to happen for mass denaturalizations!
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A visual depicting Trump's expansion of 287(g) agreements between police and ICE to arrest, identify and remove aliens.

This program has existed since 1996, yet it wasn't until 2025 anyone truly began to use it. From 140 to 1,400 in 1 year, and we are now nearing 1,600 agreements. Mass Deportations are made of these infrastructure and network changes.

https://www.ice.gov/identify-and-arrest/287g
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President Trump signed an EO to create the Fraud-fighting Task Force chaired by Vice President JD Vance, which will target misuse and waste
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'For 30 or 40 years we haven't had an admin take fraud seriously. A lot of anti-fraud protections were actually turned off by the Biden administration...

We're going to turn back on those anti-fraud protections for the whole govt, across all departments so that all of these Cabinet officials are looking at what's going on and can stop fraud.'
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'Imagine a native Minnesotan who works, who's worried about his ability to support his family. And then imagine he has a neighbor who’s a Somali refugee, arrived two years ago, and has a Mercedes, and no financial stress, and no worries at all, and never seems to ever go to work — because he just went to an office in the state, lied on a piece of paper, and got unlimited free money forever.

That is the system that is being run in America. That is the corruption that this task force is going to demolish.'
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JD Vance, Andrew Ferguson, Stephen Miller and others announce a national initiative to reduce welfare which has 'drained us of trillions' and been abused by low-trust foreigners. "We can remove the scourge of fraud in our country."
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mass denaturalizations
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Pam Bondi: Denaturalization is not easy, we need tougher laws to make it faster, but we are pushing as much as we can within the framework we have.
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Pam Bondi has officially brought forth a rule to speed up the Death Penalty. Since the 90s, death penalty has been slow and too rare
Time spent on death row now takes longer than most Zoomers have been alive. It's too slow and terribly inefficient. AG Bondi has introduced a rule proposal hoping to expedite the process at a state level for stricter criminal justice results.

Comments in support or suggestion can be posted for the government here: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/03/16/2026-05134/certification-process-for-state-capital-counsel-systems
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Tennessee, focusing on shoving illegals out of the system and turning the state into a tool of identification & removal.
Tennessee House Republicans rapidly passed a bill to turn Immigration Action into a confidential procedure, protecting the identities of ICE agents and details of DHS operations. Officials who expose details without permission would be punished if this becomes state law.
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ICE now has over 42,000 migrants wearing ankle monitors, in addition to over 70,000 migrants in detention and many others under police surveillance.
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DHS is ending the H-1B lottery, replacing it with a selective, restrictive and weighted process that gives priority to high-wage and skill-proven applicants, after the fee.
A new rule has hit the federal register to push up the prevailing wages paid to H-1B visas. This proposal would cut into the level I and level II H-1B recipients, the largest share of H-1Bs, which may end up cutting a quarter or more out of the U.S.
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