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Trump Administration's DE-ESCALATION Of Immigration Enforcement DIVIDES Conservatives | THE MOVEMENT
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9:47Now PlayingA portion of the MAGA base that has long supported mass deportations is worried that the Trump administration will pump the brakes on its immigration enforcement strategy in the wake of mass public outrage over the killing of two Americans by federal immigration agents in Minneapolis.
“We have to hold the line. There can be no deescalation at all. You don’t need to bring down the temperature. Raise the temperature. Put them under pressure,” Steve Bannon, a former Trump adviser, said on his War Room podcast last week.
Commentator Megyn Kelly fumed about the immigration enforcement strategy seeming to shift to target only criminal illegal aliens, rather than anyone in the country illegally.
The Hill's House Leadership Reporter Emily Brooks explores the critical debate amongst conservatives in The Movement, her newsletter analyzing influences and debates on the right in Washington.
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