Nick Miroff

And so this is about delivering on the president's mass deportation agenda, but more quietly, you know, without the kind of spectacle that the Nome team has been producing.

Yes and no.

I mean, you know, what I'm talking about is a tactical change in the politics of immigration enforcement.

In the visuals or the politics?

In both.

In the visuals and the way that it's talked about, right?

I mean, during Nome, we saw the public affairs office of the Department of Homeland Security

Issuing these like weird white nationalist tweets, you know, about American history and culture and, you know, nativism, delivering these sermons on, you know, what Americans should think about their history.

I mean, just this kind of stuff that is just way out, you know, outside the norms.

I don't think we're going to see that anymore, at least this year.

I mean, I think that we are moving into a second year midterm political strategy that seeks to produce high numbers of deportations so the White House can point to results and say, look, I'm doing the thing that I said I was going to do, that President Trump said he was going to do.

but no longer is as geared to satisfying the president's base and the most hawkish, you know, right-wing forces that delighted in the scenes of ICE agents and Border Patrol agents going around these liberal cities and kicking ass.

The politics of that have changed.

And so it isn't like they're going to, like, really back off of mass deportations.

And they can't.

They have...

$170 billion from the one big beautiful bill.

That's the law.

They have to hire all these ICE officers.

They have to build out the detention capacity of ICE.