Daily Wire host: “You can't just deport the ones with face tattoos. You do, kind of, have to deport abuela.”
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From the July 7, 2025, edition of The Daily Wire's The Michael Knowles Show
MICHAEL KNOWLES (HOST): A big hiccup here on the question, is Trump — is he gonna be a Mount Rushmore president, or is he not gonna be Mount Rushmore president? This raised a lot of eyebrows, including my eyebrow over the week. President Trump floating amnesty for farm workers.
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KNOWLES: Now notice a relatively subdued response from the crowd when President Trump acknowledges, he says, look. I love my — we love our radical right people, but they're not gonna like amnesty for illegal aliens who work on farms. But, you know, they'll understand. Right? And there's a subdued reaction from the crowd. And the reason is this — as as I've said before, Trump gets it right 99.7% of the time. But we're not — I'm not just the cheerleading section for Trump. I really like the guy. I really like him a lot, as you know, and have for ten years, and I think he's done a lot of great stuff.
I think this could be a perilous objective for him. I don't think this is necessarily the right course to go down. I see why. I see why he's going down it because he's got friends, especially in the business community, who's saying, I'm losing all my workers. Go after the illegals who aren't workers. Go after the illegals who were just sucking off welfare. Go after the workers who are criminals. Go after the workers with the face tattoos. Go at —
Elevent million to sixteen million illegal aliens in this country. If you want to actually start to rectify that situation, you can't just deport the ones with face tattoos. You do, kind of, have to deport abuela. You do eventually, at least. You can't have just random carve outs. Well, if you work on a farm — as if what? Illegals who work on farms can't commit crimes? As if they haven't committed crime? I mean, first of all, there have been farm working illegal aliens who have committed horrific crimes like rape in the country. But, also, they've already committed a crime by coming over here. And the question is this about — is this an issue of justice? Is this an issue of national sovereignty? Well, if it is, then we have to enforce the law.
The the real error, I think, that is lying in wait here is the notion that mass deportations are a radical right issue. They're not. Mass deportations are a majority mainstream political issue. And that's very hard for us to understand because for most of our lives the two views that you could have of migration were mass illegal migration, mass legal migration, or mass legal migration, but maybe not so much illegal migration. But both of the views you were allowed to hold were much, much more immigration, and that's not what people want. That's not what people voted for. Trump campaigned on mass deportations. Full stop. He campaigned on it. He was clear as day. He didn't lie to anybody. And people voted for that, and he won the popular vote.