Donald Trump Tours “Alligator Alcatraz” In Florida

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"Very soon, this facility will house some of the most menacing migrants—some of the most vicious people on the planet." – PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP?? pic.twitter.com/sn5igFZGHU

— The White House (@WhiteHouse) July 1, 2025

THE TRUMP EFFECT – Total Border Patrol encounters for the entire month of June 2025 was 6,070. That is less than a single day under Biden. As a matter of fact, the total number of encounters is less than half of a single day under Biden
on many days. Also, none of the 6,070 were…

— Thomas D. Homan (@RealTomHoman) July 1, 2025

Trump: "We have a lot of cases where ICE will go into a farm. These are guys working there for 10-15 years, no problem. The farmers know them. It's called farmer responsibility, or owner responsibility, They will be responsible for these people. They know these people." pic.twitter.com/3JoaQX0QCJ

— The Bulwark (@BulwarkOnline) July 1, 2025

Trump on DeSantis's new detention camp for migrants: "We'd like to see them in many states. And at some point they might morph into a system." pic.twitter.com/fCCBd6B6Xi

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 1, 2025

Trump 'working on' deportation exemptions for illegal farm and hospitality workers https://t.co/aP1cgZpITK

— Fox News (@FoxNews) July 2, 2025

Looks like legal immigration is staying steady, while illegal immigration is falling. Probably going to be hard to convince many Americans that this is a problem. https://t.co/GDAmNrsq58 pic.twitter.com/Y6vuASiGCo

— Byron York (@ByronYork) July 2, 2025

It is a mixed bag.

I will give it to you straight.

1. The good news is that the Trump administration deserves tremendous credit for stopping the inflow of illegal aliens at the border where border crossings haven’t been this low in decades.

2. The bad news is that deportations are still pathetic and Trump announced during his tour of “Alligator Alcatraz” in Florida that he is giving a de facto amnesty to illegal alien farm workers to appease Big Ag and hotel and restaurant workers to appease the hotel and restaurant industry lobbyists.

3. Legal immigration is essentially unchanged although in fairness to the Trump administration this is the fault of Congress where annual legal immigration levels are set by statute.

4. It is still possible that the Trump administration could achieve “mass deportations” with the ICE funding in the Big Beautiful Bill, but this won’t happen overnight. It will take time to hire and train new ICE agents and to build deportation infrastructure like “Alligator Alcatraz” in all 50 states.

5. Finally, as I explained last night, the ICE funding in the Big Beautiful Bill is just a sweetener for a deeply unpopular GOP tax and spending bill which will throw lots of people off their health insurance to pay for business tax cuts. The GOP will probably lose the House again in the midterms because of this.

Note: There is something in this for both blackpillers and whitepillers to argue over. The same was true of the Iran strike where Trump attacked Iran on behalf of Israel, but stopped short of going all in.