GOP cant go soft on immigration with midterms looming its why voters picked Trump

Capitol Hill Republicans are nervously chattering amongst themselves about whether Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem could be the first member of President Donald Trump’s second-term Cabinet headed for the exit.They’re looking in the wrong direction: They should be focused on whether they’re headed for the exits, too.The big question facing Republicans in Washington and across the country isn’t who should run DHS, but how they can respond to the obvious questions about how Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol agents are doing their jobs.Coming up with an answer that satisfies voters could decide whether November’s midterm elections allows Trump to continue his transformative agenda — or whether a Democratic tidal wave sweeps a generation of leftist radicals into both houses of Congress.If that happens, it won’t matter who is serving as DHS secretary after November: Whoever it is will be targeted by incoming Democrat radicals for impeachment.All the arguments Democrats used under Joe Biden against the removal of then-DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, who purposefully avoided doing his job and repeatedly lied to Congress about it, will be cast aside. They will hate anyone who actually attempts to enforce this nation’s immigration laws, because they don’t believe these laws, duly passed by Congress and signed by presidents of both parties, should even exist. They’re already pushing their predictable attacks on immigration enforcement — highlighting exaggerated sob stories, ignoring the truth about the massive number of very bad people arrested, and framing the whole effort as a fascist assault on “our neighbors.”Democrats are playing on Americans’ generous sympathies to justify breaking the law and allowing dangerous criminals to run rampant.They won’t even acknowledge the plain fact that being here illegally is a crime.Yet the need to enforce those laws is a major reason why the GOP won bigly in 2024.Tired of four...