President Trump is moving at warp speed to close our borders and deport criminal aliens — signature campaign promises.

Most Americans, horrified by four years of seeing our borders overrun and illegal migrants with criminal records being allowed to remain in our country, are applauding the president’s moves. A just-published New York Times poll found that 87 percent of respondents support “deporting immigrants who are here illegally and have criminal records.” Some 63 percent favor “deporting immigrants who are here illegally and arrived over the last four years.” A surprising 55 percent back “deporting all immigrants who are here illegally.”

That will change. Americans are a soft-hearted people, and a nation of immigrants. Once the border chaos is brought under control, and the deportations of illegal immigrants gathers steam, there will be a story, or many stories, of some hard-working immigrant caught up in the net, who grabs the nation’s sympathy.

Someone like Carmen, a hairdresser I spoke to recently, who emigrated from Mexico to the U.S. more than two decades ago, works hard, pays taxes and, with her also-undocumented husband, has raised two children who are now in college. One wants to be a nurse; the other is studying business.

Carmen (not her real name) is afraid that their many years of hard work, and building their American dream, are in jeopardy. The incoming immigration authorities have made it clear that they are prioritizing criminals in their deportation push, but that anyone in the U.S. illegally is also fair game. She believes them.

Everyone knows a Carmen. And sympathy for her plight, stoked by the opposition media, will threaten to undermine Americans’ enthusiasm for Trump’s........

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