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President Trump’s vow to conduct mass deportations recently gained altitude from Congress, the Supreme Court and his most conservative supporters.

With the imminent arrival of a significant hike in federal funding, thanks to the July 4 enactment of the “big, beautiful bill,” and the high court’s ruling last month that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) can swiftly deport migrants to locations outside their native countries, the administration promises a far larger ICE force as its tactics draw scrutiny.

Public approval for hard-line immigration policies has fallen in the past year, polling shows, with Gallup reporting recently that the shifting views have come amid illegal border crossings dropping sharply this year.

The share of those surveyed by Gallup who want to see immigration reduced has fallen from 55 percent in 2024 to 30 percent now. Seventy-nine percent of surveyed U.S. adults say immigration is a good thing for the country — a record high, Gallup reports, citing its June survey.

The president and White House border czar Tom Homan say they want to increase the number of deportations of migrants and “criminals,” while farmers, small business owners and hospitality CEOs are lobbying Trump to pull back on the sweeps by masked ICE agents who are deporting their workers.

Referring to himself in the third person, Trump’s border czar promised a Turning Point USA Student Action Summit audience in Tampa on Saturday, “Tom Homan is going to run the biggest deportation operation this country has ever seen. Take it to the bank.”

Homan attempted Sunday on CNN to clarify comments he made Friday about the grounds ICE agents can use to make arrests, which were criticized as defending racial profiling. Physical appearance “can’t be the sole reason to raise reasonable suspicion,” he told CNN, but he said immigration agents can detain people “based on their location, their occupation” and “their physical appearance.”

Federal agents have been accused by immigration lawyers of making arrests of men who look foreign or Latino and asking evidentiary questions later. If an ICE agent observed someone with a suspected MS-13 tattoo, Homan told CNN, it “may be one factor to add to other factors to raise reasonable suspicion.”

Trump’s immigration efforts will soon gain $170 billion in additional border security resources from the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” the GOP package that will make ICE the highest funded law enforcement agency in the federal government.

Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons said in a new memo tied to the Supreme Court ruling that federal immigration officers “may deport immigrants with as little as six hours’ notice to countries other than their own even if officials have not provided any assurances that the new arrivals will be safe from persecution or torture.”

Thousands of people with work permits and families in the U.S. may be targeted for removal to countries to which they have no ties or relatives, according to lawyers advocating for migrants.

The president argues his administration wants to eject migrants who are murderers, criminals and the “worst of the worst.” Citing new ICE statistics, The Associated Press reported that nearly 72 percent of about 57,900 people ICE detained as of June 29 had no criminal convictions. Some 14,300 with pending criminal charges had no convictions. More than 27,000 people who are subject to immigration enforcement had no criminal convictions.

SUBTRACTION: Meanwhile, as Congress increases funding and manpower for ICE, the State Department on Friday fired more than 1,300 civil servants and Foreign Service employees after the Supreme Court gave the administration the go-ahead to reshape the executive branch.

This week, Senate Republicans are fighting over their legislative sway, specifically in relation to Trump’s request to rescind $9.4 billion in foreign aid and about $1 billion in public broadcasting approved by Congress.

“I suspect it’s going to be very close. I don’t know if it will be modified in advance, but I can’t really honestly look Americans in the face and say that I’m going to be doing something about the deficit if I can’t cut $9 billion,” Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), who backs the cuts, told CBS on Sunday.

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting has defenders in the Republican caucus, although it’s unclear how senators will seek to alter the rescissions package. A The New York Times podcast titled “Is Congress about to kill this local radio station?” broadcast on Friday noted that Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) supports public media in her state. Sen. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) also has expressed opposition to the cuts to public broadcasting as currently drafted.

Tom Abbott, longtime station manager of Alaska’s KFSK-FM, a public radio station in Petersburg, Alaska, told the Times he might have to lay off five employees to survive with two and limit current programming if Congress accedes to Trump’s rescission request.

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