MAGA Says Trump is Going Lax on Deportations

Articles | April 13, 2026 | by Catholics for Catholics

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They want to spur him to continue holding mass deportations.

By Catholics for Catholics

When it comes to President Donald Trump’s campaign promise of having mass deportations, some conservatives say he is going lax and in the process betraying the voters who put him in the White House.

According to a story by Axios, The White House is leaving behind the mass deportation talks ahead of the midterms, vexing immigration sticklers who considered Trump their last chance at undoing decades of mass migration.

“Our basic goal of the Mass Deportation Coalition is to actually provide Trump with what we call kind of a right flank, saying, ‘No, Mr. President, you’re listening to the wrong people,’” Mark Morgan, the former head of ICE and Customs and Border Protection, told Axios.

Headed by the Oversight Project’s Mike Howell, the Mass Deportation Coalition spans GOP think tanks like the Heritage Foundation, newer advocacy groups like the Immigration Accountability Project, and a number of Young Republican clubs.

These groups believe they still have the public’s support on their side to encourage Trump to stick to his campaign promise, despite the fatal shootings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti and numerous other use-of-force incidents.

.@MattWalshBlog: If Trump doesn't get mass deportations, no one will.

"Our message to Trump has to be, you've got to do it. If it's not you, it won't be anybody…If we're willing to say, ok fine, Trump didn't do it…that's us saying, ok fine, it will never happen." pic.twitter.com/FkjPjf4UA3

— Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) April 9, 2026

According to Axios, in their view, it’s the rich donors, big business and industry groups who are out of line with the public.

“If Trump had said what industry wanted [on the campaign trail], ‘I’m going to keep the illegals here so you can have cheap labor,’ he would not be in the White House,” Howell said. “He’d be in a prison cell right now.”

“The President has only gotten pressure in his face to tone down the enforcement,” Howell, a former Homeland Security official in Trump’s first term, told Axios.

“The truth is, the first year was not a year of mass deportation,” he said. “A conscious decision was made to go after the worst first, which was, we’ll call it a deviation from the central campaign promise of mass deportations.”

But White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson told Axios in a statement, “Nobody is changing the Administration’s immigration enforcement agenda and the President’s entire team is on the same page when it comes to implementing his policies.”