U.S. President Donald Trump's administration touted the early results of his immigration crackdown on Monday despite concerns over due process, displaying photos of alleged criminal offenders on the White House lawn and preparing to target cities and states that limit cooperation with federal immigration enforcement.
Trump plans to sign three executive orders on Monday, spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt said. The first calls for the attorney general to identify cities and states failing to comply with federal immigration laws, the second relates to law enforcement communication and the third is tied to English literacy for commercial truck drivers, she said.
Trump launched an aggressive enforcement campaign after taking office, surging troops to the southern border and pledging to deport millions of immigrants in the United States illegally.
The Republican president, who made immigration a major campaign issue in 2024, said the actions were needed after years of high illegal immigration under his predecessor, Democrat Joe Biden.
White House officials at a press briefing touted a steep decline in illegal crossings at the border during Trump's first three months in office - even as concerns have emerged over the due process rights of immigrants and U.S. citizens swept up in the dragnet.
The U.S. Border Patrol arrested 7,200 migrants illegally crossing the border in March, the lowest monthly total since 2000 and down from a peak of 250,000 in December 2023.
"We have the most secure border in the history of this nation and the numbers prove it," Trump border czar Tom Homan said at the briefing.
Democrats and civil rights advocates have criticized Trump's heightened enforcement tactics, including the cases of several U.S.-citizen children recently deported with their parents. One of the children had a rare form of cancer, according to the American Civil Liberties Union.
Homan blamed the parents for putting their children at risk of deportation by remaining in the United States.
"If you choose to have a U.S.-citizen child, knowing you're in this country illegally, you put yourself in that position," he said.
In his first hundred days in office, Trump has moved to strip legal immigration status from hundreds of thousands of people, increasing the pool of those who can potentially be deported.
While arrests of immigrants in the United States illegally have spiked, deportations remain below last year's levels under Biden when there were more people illegally crossing the border who could be quickly returned.
Deportations were down in Trump's first three months in office from 195,000 last year to 130,000 this year, Reuters reported last week. Homan defended the figures and said it was not fair to compare them to Biden-era tallies.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facilities have been over capacity, with some 48,000 in custody as of early April, beyond the funded level of 41,500.
Homan said that Texas military base Fort Bliss could be ready "in the very near future" to hold migrant detainees. The Trump administration has already been using the U.S. naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Photos posted on the White House lawn featured 100 people charged or convicted of serious crimes, including murder, rape and fentanyl distribution. Numerous studies show immigrants do not commit crimes at a higher rate than native-born Americans.
SANCTUARY STANDOFF
Trump has criticized cities and states that limit cooperation with federal immigration enforcement, labeling them "sanctuaries" and blaming them for releasing criminal offenders instead of coordinating their transfer to ICE.
Last week, a federal judge blocked Trump's administration from withholding federal funding from more than a dozen so-called sanctuary jurisdictions that have declined to cooperate with Trump's hardline immigration crackdown.
U.S. officials arrested a Wisconsin judge on Friday and charged her with helping a man in her court briefly evade immigration authorities. The arrest triggered backlash from Democrats and immigrant rights advocates who raised concerns that immigrant victims may not feel safe in courthouses.
Homan defended the arrest, saying that the administration would enforce laws prohibiting harboring of a person in the United States illegally.
“You will be prosecuted, judge or not," he said.
The full scope of Trump's planned executive orders, which he was scheduled to sign at 5 p.m. EST, remained unclear.
Americans are split on Trump’s immigration approach, but he has a 45% approval rating on immigration, better than other major issues, a Reuters/Ipsos poll conducted in mid-April found.
© Thomson Reuters 2025.
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Underworld
Nobody wants an immigration crackdown.
TaiwanIsNotChina
I think I saw that the WH is claiming 50% of approval on their immigration crackdown is a great success.
I'veSeenFootage
If democrats had any b*lls they would plaster similar posters with Trump's face and each of this crimes under it on the walls of Congress.
bass4funk
Whatever. Whenever they win the White House (whenever that may be) they can do that, now they can’t.
WA4TKG
Look at the country you’re printing this article in, and get back to us
JboneInTheZone
A new CNN poll just recently came out with an overall approval rating of around 41%, the worst of any president in his first 100 days in 70 years. It’s only going to keep dropping which means the Dems will sweep the midterms and be able to start blockIng a lot of his nonsense. If all goes well enough he’ll hopefully get impeached
bass4funk
It’s CNN, I mean, seriously?
They are trying, the problem is, they are not all on the same wavelength and at 25% approval, they continue to fall and have no message other than to resist Trump
If Dems are that stupid for a third time, but before that, they need to win the House, and in order to win the House they need to win elections and what will they be running on? Immigration is the worst thing they can run on, it’s the issue, at least one that got them kicked out of power. Hating and resisting Trump without any real solutions won’t get them elected to anything. Ignore Trump, come up with better solutions, put the socialist fascist policies aside and maybe, maybe they might have a slight chance.
JJE
Clearly the voting public elected for a massive, all-encompassing immigration crackdown.
TaiwanIsNotChina
That's all they will need through 2028 given Trump's plans to disrupt America.
TaiwanIsNotChina
Tell people they can't afford a house and they are in favor of an immigration crackdown. Tell people families are being split up and they are not in favor of an immigration crackdown. It's all about proper messaging with the low information voter and Trump is delivering the headlines in the wrong direction.
JboneInTheZone
Feel free to post a poll that states the contrary.
That 25% isn’t a statement on the Dems as a whole, just those in Congress right now. The resist Trump message is getting more and more appealing the more he continues to mess up the country and attempt to defy the constitution.
It’s simple, they’ll run on the economy. Trumps tariffs have pissed everyone off both left and right. It’ll be an easy battle to win
Tokyo Guy
"Due process? You'll be lucky if the midterms aren't already rigged. Don't push your luck!"
bass4funk
Wow! So you think people are emotionally damaged that they will vote Democrat based on resentment and anger and regard any policy whatsoever? If you think that, I’m begging you guys to use that tactic. ROFL!
JboneInTheZone
Absolutely. “We’re not Trump and we’ll fix all his economically disastrous decisions” is a great platform to run on.
bass4funk
That wasn’t the point, I am not disputing some of the poll leanings, there’s a lot of cherry-picking the Dems are doing, but there are some things of lite concern, but all in all, things will iron themselves out, they just started
Yes, it’s on the Dems overall as a whole.
Now you are on the mark.
Resist without a plan or solution, again, with polls like as a party and sinking, have to do better.
Like in California?
Libs and the richest people, not to most rural Americans
bass4funk
How? More taxation, robbing Paul to give to Peter? Income redistribution. Bernie and AOC will be the Dems further downfall, just watch
JboneInTheZone
Okay where’s your evidence that this poll involved cherry picking? I’ll wait
Do you have a link? I only saw a 25% approval rating for Dems in Congress not as a whole
The plan is to return to the norms of the past, I.e not nuking the markets and economy with bafflingly stupid policies like tariffs, standing up for the rule of law, and not being aggressive with our allies. These are all the opposite of what trump is doing
Not true. 62 percent of Americans have investments in the stock market which Trump nuked with his tariff policy
You realize Tariffs are a tax, right? Trump is responsible for a bigger tax hike than the anything the Dems have done in the past 30 years
Tokyo Guy
Okay where’s your evidence that this poll involved cherry picking? I’ll wait
Do you have a link? I only saw a 25% approval rating for Dems in Congress not as a whole
Little advice: don't wait. You'll either get a link to some fascist's X account, a "LOL", or something about "Biden" and "libs" (both of which seem to be paying very little rent to live inside his head 24 hours a day).
Underworld
JJE
Nobody wants an immigration crackdown.
Only because they believed the lies that immigrants are all violent gang criminals.
But now Trump is underwater in the polls about immigration.
I'veSeenFootage
You mean like getting rid of the income tax and replacing it with enormous tariffs so that middle and low-income families are robbed blind while rich people laugh on a mountain of cash? Yeah, I'm sure that's what you mean.
bass4funk
He’s hovering at 47% no one is claiming it’s the best, but it could be worse, seriously worse. And again, when he gets to 20% let’s talk, until then, sit back and chill
Yes, I always do
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/democratic-party-facing-lowest-approval-on-record/ar-AA1BaQCB
God, people aren’t that stupid! That’s why you guys lost.
I don’t feel sorry for richest 1% people who didn’t hold on or invest wisely, I think real estate would be a more secure option, but that’s me.
Not necessarily
Calm down, all will be fine, get a message, stop crying and see if you can truly win elections
bass4funk
And the Dems solution is what? Yes?….
Tokyo Guy
Only because they believed the lies that immigrants are all violent gang criminals.
My pet theory is that a country's moral decline is closely tied in to how easy it is to dupe voters by spewing hatred about immigrants.
The more easily it works, the more trouble the country is in.
HopeSpringsEternal
Illegal aliens, especially dangerous criminals, don't get the same "Due Process" as citizens in the US or ANY country, that's just not the way the legals system works.
Those radicals pursuing illegal alien legal due process 'equivalency' with citizens will be learning more about their foolishness in the days and weeks to follow.
I'veSeenFootage
NOT make rich people even richer and poor people even poorer. Incredible idea, isn't it?
bass4funk
ROFL!
https://nypost.com/2025/03/12/us-news/trump-sees-highest-approval-on-immigration-lowest-on-tariffs-poll/
https://apnorc.org/projects/immigration-remains-one-of-trumps-strongest-issues/
bass4funk
To your point, that’s why the middle class are leaving the West Coast as fast as they can!
Peter Neil
The PR stunts with ICE Barbie don’t negate the fact that this administration is deporting less than the last administration.
Governing should not be PR or sophomoric InstaGram, TikTok nonsense. It should be mature people acting with competence.
The incompetence is staggering.
lincolnman
Anytime Trump and his minions talk about immigration it's just sucker-bait for his low-IQ supporters...
Keep them fed with hate and outrage, so they they'll forget to look at their quarterly 401k statements or realize Trump's "big, beautiful bill" slashes their Social Security and Medicare...all to give billionaires tax breaks...
Keep them bamboozled so they don't realize the Top 1% are getting the gold while the MAGA little guy is getting the shaft...
HopeSpringsEternal
Lawless radicals in Biden Admin opened the borders, ignoring immigration laws, unleashing chaos, crime and inflation on society and NOW they want "Due Process"
Those participating in "invasions" do not receive "Due Process" equivalent of normal citizens, plenty of legal precedent and existing laws supporting this position.
Trump simply delivering what he promised to US voters, enforcing existing immigration laws, deporting illegals and ensuring migrants entering the country are Vetted!
Bob Fosse
“Numerous studies show immigrants do not commit crimes at a higher rate than native-born Americans.”
maga are hungry for an ‘other’ to blame for their personal misery and failings, not noticing they are being scammed and robbed by the people they voted for.
HopeSpringsEternal
Borders are secure, including stopping massive human trafficking, fentanyl flow, terrorists and organized etc.
Sex crimes under Biden Admin spiked over 500% vs. Trump 1.0, pure open borders. Cartels and drug lords had a field day with their criminal operations, killing hundreds of thousands of Americans with their drugs, etc.
People and voters believe their own lying eyes, not some worthless piece of academic research on immigration written by radical leftists who hate America
Trump = Make America SAFE Again!
wallace
Fewer illegal immigrants have been deported under Trump than in the same period in 2024. Deportations by ICE jumped to a 10-year high in 2024.
lincolnman
Oh sure, they're leaving the 4th largest economy in the world for that beautiful Red State of Mississippi...
Which has BOTH the highest poverty and homicide rate in the US...
Blacklabel
Yeah Biden didn’t have judges helping them escape, hiding them at their house, blocking deportations of entire groups of gang members, demanding planes turn around or saying each one requires a full trial in advance.
Once the activist judge issue is resolved, the numbers will increase even more.
I'veSeenFootage
No it isn't. The answer to wealth inequality will never be "less taxes for the rich".
I'veSeenFootage
And Biden didn't deport 2 year olds with cancer either, so...
lincolnman
More reasons the Moron doesn't want to talk about the economy...even Fox is roasting him over his own pitiful poll numbers...
"Fox News analyst Karl Rove tore into President Donald Trump, saying the president was in “very bad shape” with the general public after his tariffs upended the economy.
“When it gets to the economy, he is in very bad shape,” Rove said on Fox News’ Journal Editorial Report Saturday. “And it’s not only that he’s in the short term in bad shape, there’s also evidence in the poll that no matter—even if he gets his way on certain things like tariffs, that he’s not good in the long run."
Rove further told The Wall Street Journal’s editorial page editor, Paul Gigot, on Saturday that a Fox News poll with Trump’s economic approval rating hovering at 38 percent showed that Americans are angry about how he has managed taxpayers’ money."
As one of our MAGA-fans here would say, "Ouch"...
Underworld
bass4funk
But now Trump is underwater in the polls about immigration.
That was March. Things have been tumbling as of late.
ROFL!
bass4funk
They just started, and to your point, and what the lib media purposely fails to tell is, the last few months of the Biden admin, they started to send some, and again, "some" illegals back, and why was that? Because they knew the election was around the corner, but give it time, they just started; those numbers will blow Biden's last attempt out of the water.
Well, that that to the last administration, they should have listened to you.
That is why they lost the election to your point.
bass4funk
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2025/04/28/cbs-poll-trump-deportion-policy-gets-56-percent-support/?utm_source=chatgpt.com
LOL
bass4funk
Yes, it is, income redistribution will never work, California and the Dems are finally realizing that, you really don't know what you're talking about
lincolnman
Breitbart lol indeed....
You should cite the poll by your preferred news source - the one you cite daily...
"On immigration, 47% approve of Trump (48% disapprove)"
https://www.foxnews.com/official-polls/fox-news-poll-first-100-days-president-trumps-second-term
Blacklabel
Polls again lol
Blacklabel
who wants wealth “equality”?
sounds socialist.
the answer to wealth inequality?
yes, there is. And always will be.
bass4funk
I look at the good, and you look at the bad, go for it.
Ninety percent of Republicans and 54 percent of independents approve, while just 22 percent of Democrats approve,
lincolnman
Indeed...
"Two weeks after a federal judge told the son of a wealthy socialite and business tycoon that his family’s money was not a "Get Out of Jail Free" card, a move by the White House suggested otherwise.
President Donald Trump pardoned Paul Walczak, a Palm Beach Gardens health care executive convicted of tax evasion for siphoning more than $10.9 million in payroll taxes from the paychecks of doctors and nurses. Prosecutors said he used the money to finance a lavish lifestyle and luxury goods, including a $2 million yacht."
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-pardons-palm-beach-gardens-153054515.html
bass4funk
When the Dems fix California and NYC, I will become a Vegan for life
Blacklabel
yes rich people have more privileges, is this new to you?
you really don’t want to start deflecting to people who were pardoned (entire Biden family, by Biden. Cough)
stay on immigration. No American wants violent illegals in our country.
That’s why everyone is a”father” or has “a kid with medical issues” or a “hard working union member” or “married a single mother” or some other sob story to deflect from the violent crime they did.
lincolnman
As if we needed ANOTHER example of the chaos and confusion that is engulfing Trump 2.0...
"Secretary of State Marco Rubio forgot the Gospel According to Donald Trump on Sunday by admitting that anyone on U.S. soil is entitled to a fair hearing before being removed from the country.
“Yes, of course,” Rudio said in response to the host’s question of whether the Fifth Amendment still applies under Trump during his morning interview with MSNBC. “That’s what the law says!”
Little Marco following in Tillerson's footsteps...
Marco, have your job application in at McDonalds yet?
ROFL...
I'veSeenFootage
Pre-K level of political analysis. "I don't like those numbers so they must be made up!"
Everyone except the 1% and very very dumb people who think trickle down economics work.
@Japan Glimpsed
Another befuddled and sociopathic Kool Aid addict.
I'veSeenFootage
But the Trump admin is deporting "illegals" (and some legals too) without proving or even being sure they are violent. Which is why judges all over the country are blocking it. It's very simple, and yet you still struggle to understand it.
Can you point us to the violent crimes the 2 year-old with cancer committed? Murder? Assault?
Blacklabel
a fair hearing, yes of course.
everyone has a hearing,
But that’s not what the left is demanding now that Biden never had to do.
Yrral
Lots of these undocumented have house and car note,banks will eat the losses
Blacklabel
A hearing:
Do you have proof that you in the USA legally?
No? You don’t?
then you are to be detained until you are deported on the next flight to your country of citizenship.
that’s a hearing, what else is needed?
lincolnman
You don't even know what your own Orange Oracle is saying...
"On April 21st, President Trump posted to Truth Social that “we cannot give everyone a hearing, because to do so would take, without exaggeration, 200 years,”
Glad to see you so clearly disagree with him...about time...
Blacklabel
being born to illegal parents who decided to be deported as a family.
assuming birthright citizenship isn’t found unconstitutional, they will be welcomed back once they aren’t 2 years old anymore.
would you prefer the family separated?
Blacklabel
There is a reason these children are called “anchor babies”.
The false expectation is that the child can anchor the entire illegal family into our country.
As a 2 year old can’t take care of themselves right? so the whole family can go back to Honduras, together. Best option for everyone involved.
GuruMick
You poor MAGA suckers.
Immigration is one of the ways Trump diverts your attention from the massive wealth redistribution to the super, super wealthy class in America.
But go on, blame the Latinos
wallace
Trump has signed a new EO stepping up immigration crackdown and unleashing America's law enforcement. It targets sanctuary cities, gives legal help for police accused of misconduct, and requires truck drivers to speak English.
bass4funk
Not according to police and FBI report filings
That’s not the reason why because when Biden was breaking the laws, stepped all over the Constitution and broke our borders Not one single judge stood in his way. When he secretly tried to bus illegals to red states, Not a word. This is 100% political and everyone knows it, the Dems have no power whatsoever, so they turned to the courts to help them, let’s not forget, one judge went from wearing black robes to jailhouse orange because she tried to help an illegal avoid ICE and another judge harboring an illegal at his home, so yeah, we know exactly why these activists lob judges are doing what they do.
Not me, the other way around, but it is simple, maybe someday libs will get it.
I don’t care, illegal assault a illegal, I don’t think families should be separated, so send them all back as a family and never separate them, that would be wrong and immoral
bass4funk
Good news
Good
@Japan Glimpsed
Ahh, compassion.
One senses a clear and present danger to your lifestyle.
Blacklabel
so obviously he and I are taking about different types of hearings. You do know there are different types, don’t you?
but his point stands that the type of hearing he is talking about (the one leftists are demanding, basically a trial) would take 100-200 years for 15-20 million to illegals to have.
Blacklabel
yes, compassion. a deported family stays together. Grow up happy and healthy in the country and culture of the parents.
an abandoned 2 year old in America? makes the mother unable to see her child for the rest of her life- unless a Democrat is elected again.
isn’t that sad?