Trump’s Tough Immigration Tactics: A New Era of Self-Deportation
John Sandweg, the former acting ICE Director under Obama, isn’t holding back. He says the Trump Administration is getting results by pushing illegal aliens to leave on their own.
“Look, I think we’re going to find here is that the outcomes, maybe this year are not so dramatically different, certainly, let’s say, you compare it to the Obama years,” Sandweg told NewsNation. His words cut straight to the point.
The ex-ICE chief doesn’t stop there. He draws a clear line between the Trump policies and what happened under Biden. “I don’t think it’s fair to compare it to the Biden years, because, until the last six months of the Biden administration, we had a completely different border, we had hundreds of thousands of people come across and making asylum claims, that bogs down ICE and their internal operations.”
Sandweg makes it clear: this isn’t business as usual. Trump’s team isn’t just stepping up interior deportations. They’re changing the game by removing safeguards and creating a climate of fear. “I think you’ve seen that in the rhetoric. They’ve really shifted to overtly discussing that, and they’re not — what they’re trying to do is by taking part of the guardrails off, is create a climate of fear where more people are going to self-deport,” he explained.
He adds another hard truth. “What we don’t know yet is what impact this has had on the population that lived here. They’re now looking at this saying, ‘hey, I’m scared now living in the U.S. I might end up in an El Salvadoran prison. I might be detained or deported. I’m just going to leave voluntarily while I can.’”
Migrants from Columbia wait to be processed after turning themselves over to authorities at the United States and Mexico border May 12, 2021 in Yuma, Arizona.
Numbers tell a story, too. Border encounters have dropped to record lows. Meanwhile, the administration is zeroing in on illegal aliens with additional criminal convictions.
President Trump wasted no time on day one. He ended Biden’s “catch and release” policies, meant to handle millions of illegal aliens entering the country. Instead, he brought back policies like Remain in Mexico, forcing asylum seekers to stick it out on the other side of the border.
The crackdown didn’t stop there. The White House ended Temporary Protected Status for over two million foreign nationals from countries like Haiti, Nicaragua, Venezuela, and Cuba. For those using the CBP One app under Biden’s rules, the new CBP Home app now urges them to self-deport.
DHS isn’t giving anyone a pass. They’ve set strict deadlines. If affected individuals don’t leave on their own, they risk arrest and deportation. It’s a bold, no-nonsense approach that’s shaking up immigration as we know it.
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