Just one week into President Donald Trump’s second administration, and the crocodile tears and sensational headlines are flooding in. 

Whereas in the Biden administration, nuance and justification were front and center in every legacy news article, now headlines about the Trump administration’s deportation operations for known charged and convicted criminal illegal aliens are filled with tales of fear and hypotheticals.

Unfortunately for those pushing this pearl-clutching narrative, Americans are unlikely to take such large crocodile tears over imaginary “ethnic cleanses” as they did the first time.

Trump is enjoying a higher approval rating now than he ever did in his first administration—and there are certainly a bevy of reasons why.

He has worked at a breakneck pace since Jan. 20, missing most of the inaugural ball, because he hadn’t stopped signing executive orders since taking office. These executive orders have ranged from halting discriminatory practices in the federal government to allowing Immigration Customs Enforcement to begin arresting and deporting known violent criminals who aren’t U.S. citizens, many of whom entered the country illegally.

Many of the executive orders Trump signed were direct reversals of policies instituted by the Biden administration before him, who began on “Day One” in 2021 by reversing over 70 immigration policies Trump had set in place in his first administration.

This back-and-forth was not without consequence, because while Biden, appointed “border czar” Vice President Kamala Harris, and Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas bragged about reversing what they called “xenophobic” and “racist” policies, the following crisis at the southern border became their responsibility.

This resulted in immigration passing the........

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