Each day Republican leadership debates about how, and when, to proceed with the budget reconciliation process is another day the American people are forced to wait for President Donald Trump’s agenda to kick into high gear. 

Americans need our leaders to act with the urgency that this moment demands. The safety and security of Americans must be placed first.

The No. 1 priority for Congress right now must be to ensure that every illegal alien who has invaded our country is detained and deported or leaves quickly on their own accord.

Trump’s team, led by border czar Tom Homan, is ready to do its job. During Trump’s first term, Immigration and Customs Enforcement removed illegal aliens at a rate of 32% of the aggregate number of encounters, but that rate fell to 3.5% under President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris. 

Congress now needs to throw its full support behind the administration so that they can track, arrest, detain, and deport all 20 million illegal aliens that the American people elected Trump to evict. 

Conducting the largest deportation operation in American history will require Congress to take more action—and provide ICE with funds on a historic scale. 

Implementing Trump’s plan will require ICE to have at least 100,000 detention beds, 12,000........

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