Trump tells DHS chief to work with Democrats on immigration reform, but no amnesty:
Mullin said the administration remains opposed to amnesty but Congress could consider legal status for DACA recipients
President Donald Trump has encouraged Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin to work with Democrats who have reached out about immigration reform, but the administration has not discussed changing its enforcement policies and remains opposed to amnesty, Mullin reportedly said Monday.
Mullin told reporters on the sidelines of a counter-drone conference in Maryland that "a lot of Democrats" have contacted him about working together on immigration legislation in the new Congress.
"I’ve let the president know that those calls are coming in, and the president has said, ‘Let’s start working with them and then let’s meet at some point,’" Mullin said.
However, Mullin emphasized that he and Trump have not discussed changing the administration’s immigration enforcement policies.
"But has there been a conversation about changing the policy?" Mullin said of his discussions with Trump. "No, we haven’t had that conversation."
"We’re never going to allow amnesty to happen," Mullin added.
Mullin also suggested Congress could consider a pathway to permanent legal status for recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which provides temporary protection from deportation and work authorization to eligible immigrants brought to the country illegally as children.
"If we want to have an immigration reform to where we can look at DACA and figure out a way that these individuals can become maybe legal permanent citizens or something like this, that’ll be up to Congress," Mullin said. --->READ MORE HERE
A Trump Amnesty Deal Would Betray Not Just His Voters But All Americans:
America’s immigration laws are not something the Republican Party or Trump should trade away after a bad election.
At a July 2024 rally, then-candidate Donald Trump told a crowd of cheering supporters what he’d do on his first day back in office: “We will begin the largest deportation operation in the history of our country.” Days earlier, delegates at the Republican National Convention waved signs that read “Mass Deportations Now.”
Yet in a Sunday interview with CBS News’ 60 Minutes, Trump suggested an amnesty deal may be on the table with Democrats. Reflecting on the loss at the ballot box on Tuesday, Trump told Ross Douthat that his deportation policy might have been “too tough.”
“I think it might be too tough, yeah. And a lotta people would say that it’s great. But a lotta people think it’s too tough,” the president said.
Trump then pointed to frustration that some Americans have because they believe that illegal aliens working in hotels, landscaping, and other jobs should not have been deported and noted there are others who want illegals who have managed to evade the law for “10 or 15 years” to stay. When asked about working with Democrats on it, he said it was “actually doable.”
In short, the president who ran on mass deportations is once again floating amnesty. If his takeaway from Tuesday is that Republicans need to let more illegals stay, somebody ought to show him exit polls.
As bad as Tuesday was for Republicans, voters gave Republicans an edge on immigration, with an NBC News exit poll showing that 43 percent of voters said GOP “is better able to handle immigration” compared to 41 percent who said Democrats. Another poll showed that when asked how important immigration policies were in deciding who to vote for, 73 percent of voters said immigration was a “crucial or a major factor” and among those, Republicans won 51 percent to 47 percent.
Democrats’ own advertising suggests they knew how poorly a campaign against immigration enforcement would play outside their base. An Axios analysis finding that “ICE” was the third-most featured policy topic in Democrat primary ads for 2026 but that when it came to the general election, it was ranked 35th among policy issues talked about in Democrat ads.
But even if the polls showed Trump data that his enforcement policy was a problem to the voters who turned out (Republican turnout was lower than Democrats’, which means oversampling could be likely), Trump still owes Americans the enforcement he promised. Our immigration laws are not something the Republican Party or Trump should trade away after a bad election.
Yet now Trump is toying with backing away from the only thing voters seemingly agree that he and his party got right. While Trump hasn’t laid out what an amnesty deal would look like, Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar’s DIGNIDAD Act gives us a pretty good idea of what some Republicans are already willing to offer. --->READ MORE HERE
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