Border Czar Tom Homan told CBS News that President Donald Trump is talking to his advisors about offering some form of “legal status” to many illegal migrants.
A pro-migration reporter at CBS asked Homan on Wednesday: “Would you support a compromise, sir, that involves giving legal status [amnesty] to the millions of people who are here illegally but are otherwise law-abiding?”
“I’m not gonna get ahead of the President on that,” Homan cautiously responded.
“I work for the President,” Homan added, as the Colombian-born migrant reporter interrupted him to insist that “Something has to be done to address that [illegal migrant] population, or is a solution to deport them all?”
Homan answered:
I’m not going to get ahead of President. You know, the President’s talking to various members of his cabinet, there’s discussions going on. I’m involved in some, but not others, but I’m not going to get ahead of the President on this.
Many different polls show that Trump’s base strongly opposes amnesty and illegal migration. Opposition is increasingly built on a recognition that migration moves money from ordinary people towards the elite and the stock market.
The polls also show that his base increasingly opposes the legalized migration that Congress grants to business donors who want to profit from additional wage-cutting migrant workers, taxpayer-funded consumers, and apartment-sharing renters.
“Mass Deportation is the glue that keeps our beautiful coalition together,” declared an April 30 tweet from Mike Howell, the president of the centrist Oversight Project.
But business groups bitterly oppose Trump’s 2024 election promises, his deportation mandate, and his populist, pro-American coalition, which threatens their huge economic gains from migration, especially in real estate, hotels, and the food industry.
Other investors are pushing for cheap labor because they oppose Trump’s demand that they divert profits to invest in high-tech workplace technology that helps ordinary Americans earn higher wages by getting more work done each shift. The expensive automation would also help America keep pace with China’s low-migration, high-tech economy.
Many business groups are now pushing Rep. Maria Salazar’s “Dignidad” bill which would provide business groups with a vast inflow of cheap labor. Many Democrats support the cheap-labor bill because it would immediately boost their urban political machines and give them a vast wave of new voters within a decade.
The back-and-forth described by Homan is likely related to a large-scale poll that was funded by business interests to display fake support for a workplace amnesty, in the hope that Trump would help employers hire millions of cheap young migrants instead of sidelined Americans.
The skewed polling project at the White House was described by Rich Baris, who has sympathetically tracked MAGA-related voters:
I participated in the polling project that is being manipulated right now to convince the President that it’s a good idea, and I only ever agreed to do it because I got concrete assurances, promises, that they would not go behind my back and deliver the results to the President without my explicit okay with their analysis.
Pollsters discussed how they could write and present the questions to maximize apparent MAGA support for the unpopular amnesty pitch, according to Baris:
Why don’t we word it like this? Why don’t we report it to the President like this? What if we just say, after all those three questions, what if we just say we combine those three [answers] and that could be [presented as] like total support?… What if [the amnesty] didn’t apply to a single person who came here under Joe Biden? What if it explicitly barred these people on the pathway from being able to vote for a period of 10 years, 20 years? We did [ask questions with various timetables] — one to two, three to five, six, whatever. I can’t remember exactly. We did increments all the way up to like, 20 years, 20-plus years, [or for work in] specific industries… [Then] get the total with all those ‘What ifs’ and then show the President, “Look at how much of MAGA will support it!”
Meanwhile, Homan’s cabinet colleague, Homeland Security chief Markwayne Mullin, is touting the agency’s apparent growing success in deporting migrants.
“Over the last seven days, we’ve deported over 3,000 [people] a day,” Mullin told TV host Scott Jennings on Wednesday. “We’re moving strong, we’re just trying to do it in a different [lower-profile] approach,” he added.
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