Exclusive | Speaker Mike Johnson says up to 4.5M migrants will be first priority for mass deportation
Should former President Donald Trump win back the White House, as many as 4.5 million migrants who entered the US illegally will be a “first priority” for deportation, House Speaker Mike Johnson told The Post in an exclusive interview.Trump, 78, has already floated the removal of “nearly 20 million” migrants if he becomes the 47th president — and his closest ally in the House sees an opportunity to fast-track the removal of the most dangerous of the lot.“There’s about 4.5 million who would be the first priority for that, people who’ve already committed crimes,” Johnson (R-La.) said Thursday.“They’re in the system now [for] shoplifting, or whatever it is … or [having] done things that are untoward or unlawful.”While the figure quoted by Johnson is far higher than any federal records show, Republicans have noted that the Harris-Biden administration is consistently low-balling immigration stats and ignoring nearly 2 million known “gotaways” who evaded arrest when coming into the country.Many migrants flock to so-called “sanctuary” jurisdictions in blue states like New York or California, where officials do not ask about or record their immigration status — and limit local law enforcement’s cooperation with federal agencies like Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance suggested during his Oct.
1 debate with Democratic Minnesota Gov.Tim Walz that there are roughly 1 million criminal migrants inside the US.“We’ve got 20, 25 million illegal aliens who are here in the country.
What do we do with them?” Vance responded when asked about future deportation plans.“I think the first thing that we do is we start with the criminal migrants.
About a million of those people have committed some form of crime, in addition to crossing the border illegally.”Shocking ICE data obtained last month by Rep.Tony Gonzales (R-Texas) confirms that at least 662,566 migrants have known criminal hi...