A Fox News personality has cautioned that Trump supporters could sit out the November midterm elections if the president does not follow through on his pledge to carry out large-scale deportations.
Tomi Lahren issued the stark warning about conservative voters on X after sharing her reaction to a clip from CNN’s Sunday program State of the Union.
In the video she referenced, Department of Homeland Security head Markwayne Mullin could be heard telling Jake Tapper that DHS was not prepared to guarantee the mass removal of about 350,000 Haitians expected to lose Temporary Protected Status, or TPS, next year.
Rather than facing automatic deportation, the migrants will “have a couple of choices” that may allow them to remain in the United States, Secretary Mullin said.
“They can try to apply for a permanent residence here, they can apply for a temporary visa if they choose to, or they can choose to go back. And if they wanna go back, we’ll help them with that,” he said.
Lahren, 33, was not convinced by the explanation. She also pointed to what she described as the administration’s failure to enact promised voter ID requirements for Americans. Lahren has long championed Trump’s hard-line stance on illegal immigration.
“So no voter ID and now mass deportations aren’t happening either. Why do we elect Republicans?” she fumed during a commercial break from her Big Weekend Show.
“Don’t be surprised when conservatives stay home in November. I’m not advocating for it but I won’t be surprised,” the Fox News and OutKick host warned.
Fox News Tomi Lahren, 33, took a shot at a Trump cabinet member on Sunday for what she framed as a softer-than-promised approach to immigration
Lahren was reacting to a CNN State of the Union interview from where Homeland Security head Markwayne Mullin told Jake Tapper that Haitians set to lose Temporary Protected Status (TPS) keeping them in the country next year ‘have a couple of choices’
A Supreme Court decision on Thursday gave the administration the power to mass deport those with TPS.
TPS was granted for Haitians way back in 2010, following the devastating earthquake that month that killed roughly 220,000.
The disaster paved the way for the rise of youth gangs and other armed groups for more than a decade.
The post promptly received more than 400,000 views.
Top administration officials like White House border czar Tom Homan and former DHS head Kristi Noem have aired reinforced plans to execute mass deportations.
Mullin told those set to lose the protection to ‘either try to fill out the paperwork and be here underneath a permanent status, or we will help you get back to your country’ during his spot on CNN.
‘We will actually give you a plane ticket, plus roughly $2,100, to help you re-establish when you get there,’ he explained.
After a Thursday ruling from the Supreme court, the administration has the authority to end TPS for hundreds of thousands of Haitians
He emphasized to Tapper how TPS, as its name already suggests, ‘is not permanent.’
‘The whole time these individuals have been here underneath the Temporary Protected Status, they could have applied for a visa,’ he said.
‘They could have applied for LPR [Lawful Permanent Resident status]. They could have applied for different directions,’ Mullin explained.
Immigrants from 11 other countries also receive TPS. All are set to lose the protection when the policy signed into law by George H.W. Bush expires in February.
Congress created the qualification in 1990 to provide ‘short-term humanitarian relief’ for aliens who cannot safely return to their homes, the Supreme Court reiterated in its ruling on Thursday.
Mullin – a former Oklahoma senator – was tapped to replace Noem last month. Lahren interned for then-Congresswoman Noem after college in South Dakota.
She became a co-host of The Big Weekend Show alongside Joey Jones last year, after 8 years with Fox News.
