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Trump Aide Tells GOP to Focus on Violent Criminals, Not ‘Mass Deportations’: Report
White House urges GOP to highlight deportation of violent criminals due to 49% of Americans opposing mass deportations, aiming to improve midterm election prospects.
- On Tuesday, James Blair, White House Deputy Chief of Staff, urged House Republicans at a Doral retreat to stop talking about 'mass deportations' and focus on deporting violent criminals, Axios reported.
- The White House last year pressured the Department of Homeland Security to increase deportations, while DHS under Kristi Noem carried out high-profile roundups removing many without criminal convictions.
- On Tuesday, White House Deputy Chief of Staff James Blair told House Republicans to focus on deporting violent criminals, while DHS has arrested over 595,000 since January 20, and nearly half of Americans view the campaign as too aggressive.
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The interim elections in November could cost Republicans the majority in the House of Representatives. Months before the election, they are now setting a strategic turnaround: a term should no longer fall.
Sydney Morning Herald
White House tells Republicans to avoid mass deportation talk ahead of midterms
With Republican poll numbers in the doldrums, two senior staffers say it’s time to stop talking about one of the Trump’s big campaign pledges.
White House seeks to tweak deportation rhetoric
The White House is telling Republicans to refine their immigration messaging as the party stares down the midterm elections, a tacit acknowledgement that its hardline rhetoric about mass deportation risks alienating voters. White House deputy chief of staff James Blair told House Republicans in a closed-door meeting at their retreat Tuesday that their messaging on deportations should focus on efforts to remove criminals from the US, a person fam…
The White House urged Republicans in the House of Representatives to move away from the message of mass deportations. Axios reported that the instruction came from James Blair, deputy chief of staff for legislative, political and public affairs, in the face of the mid-term elections on November 3. Read more
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