Human Events Daily host Jack Posobiec spoke with Florida Congressman Byron Donalds on Tuesday to discuss Florida’s new deportation infrastructure and growing public support for mass deproations of illegal aliens.
The conversation followed the opening of the Alligator Alcatraz facility.
“We thank everything Florida has done and the way the Florida delegation has put together this new program regarding illegal aliens,” Posobiec said. “I’ve heard from the liberals, I’ve heard from reporters that say America doesn’t want this or support it, yet I look at the polls and every single poll that is coming up has been ‘deportations, deportations, deportations.’”
Recent polling data reported by PBS found while a majority of Democrats (83%) and independents (59%) said US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has gone too far, Republicans largely supported the agency’s enforcement actions, with nearly half saying its actions have been appropriate and 31% saying they haven’t gone far enough.
Meanwhile, 43% of Americans say deportation policies are making the country safer, and 80% support deporting illegal immigrants convicted of violent crimes, including 75% of Democrats.
Posobiec asked Donalds what kind of response he’s been hearing from constituents and the public in Florida.
“I think people are happy that Florida is taking this seriously to the extent that the new facility was set up to help deport criminal illegal aliens and a lot of the people that Joe Biden let in over the last four years,” Donalds replied. “That’s what has overwhelmed every city in the country and where all the crime has come from. Not in total, but definitely in part.”
“They don’t want political statements that don’t go anywhere. They wanna see this stuff get done.”
“There were a lot of people that were concerned about the spending side of the one big beautiful bill, and I’m concerned about the spending side but at the end of the day we have to get Tom Homan and Kristi Noem $150 billion to start these deportations, to have the manpower and bed space and the logistical capabilities to start that mission. It’s going to be an arduous mission, it’s going to take several years. We’re going to have to be consistent about it.”
“I think at a broader level, when you talk about the need for deportations, it’s a real conversation about what is immigration going to be in the United States. Are we going to be haphazard how we have been the last 30 years depending on if it’s Democrats in control or Republicans in control? Or are we finally going to say, we’re going to have secure borders, we’re going to have one pathway in, you comply with the pathway in or you’re not allowed to come into the US.”
