Fox News’ Marie Harf and Kaylee McGhee White brawled over President Donald Trump’s continued efforts to deport illegal immigrants on Monday’s edition of Outnumbered.
After playing a clip of Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass (D) decrying the fact that many new Border Patrol recruits are Hispanic, host Tomi Lahren prompted Harf, a former Obama administration spokeswoman.
“Alright Marie, I’m coming to you on this. I thought you were looking right at me. I want your take, because when I saw this, the way I translated it was LA Mayor Karen Bass is saying that if you’re Hispanic and you join Border Patrol or ICE, that maybe you hate yourself or maybe you’re just broke. And I don’t think either is a real compliment to the Hispanic community, but I gotta get your take on this one,” said Lahren.
“I would certainly not have worded it like she did. I was reading some interesting stories this morning about all the Hispanic Americans who voted for Trump, which we know a lot, you know, had voted for Democrats before, particularly in places like Texas, voted for Donald Trump. And there are a number of stories where they are saying they are horrified at seeing who ICE is going after, right?” replied Harf. “We know 700, or excuse me, 75,000 as of October, people that have been rounded up by ICE have not been accused or charged with a crime. But I remember before the election when everyone said, ‘He’s going to go after the worst of the worst. Murderers, rapists.’ That’s not what’s happening. They’re going into a lot of primarily Hispanic communities, rounding up people, elderly people, young kids who’ve been here, you know, elderly people who’ve been here for decades, and Hispanic supporters of Trump are like, ‘wait a second, this isn’t what we bargained for.’ And so I think, you know, 170 American citizens have been rounded up mistakenly during these raids. So I think there is something to be said. I’m looking to Hispanic voters who supported Trump who say, ‘Wait a second, this isn’t what we were told ICE was going to do,’ and they’re now having some buyer’s remorse. I think that’s interesting.”
One of the most ardent supporters of President Donald Trump’s promise to implement a mass-deportation campaign has a message for the White House: Try harder.
The Trump administration’s focus on deporting immigrants with criminal records – “the worst of the worst” in its words — is too narrow, said Mike Howell, a visiting fellow at the Heritage Foundation. He’s pushing for large-scale workplace raids to drive deportations much higher.
“I am not happy about the deportation numbers, and I am not happy about what I see as fake deportation stats,” Howell said in an interview. “Just focus on the workplace and the numbers would be far more what they should be.”
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Standing in the way potentially is growing public pushback. Trump’s approval rating on immigration fell to 38% in a December poll by the Associated Press and NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. That was down from 49% in March. His overall approval rating slipped to 36% from 42% over the same period.
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The Heritage Foundation, the think tank behind Project 2025, says in a report out Friday that the Trump administration is “significantly off pace” on mass deportations.
Why it matters: This is an attack from the right. “The American people voted for mass deportations. They’re getting mass communications instead,” the report’s author Mike Howell tells Axios.
The big picture: President Trump promised to carry out the largest mass deportation campaign since the Eisenhower administration.
https://www.axios.com/2025/11/21/heritage-foundation-trump-mass-deportations