MAGA Figures Demand Markwayne Mullin's Ouster Over Immigration Remarks at 1 Governors Meeting
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Updated · The New Republic · Aug 3
MAGA Figures Demand Markwayne Mullin's Ouster Over Immigration Remarks at 1 Governors Meeting
3 articles · Updated · The New Republic · Aug 3
Summary
Calls to fire Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin intensified after he told governors in Oklahoma that immigration can help grow the U.S. economy if visa rules are reworked to fill labor shortages.
At the bipartisan National Governors Association meeting, Mullin said seasonal-worker programs no longer fit year-round farm labor needs and argued immigrants do not take Americans' jobs in all industries, especially agriculture.
Tomi Lahren, Laura Loomer, Steve Bannon and Jack Posobiec cast the comments as a retreat from Donald Trump's mass-deportation agenda, with Posobiec saying MAGA wants a replacement who "puts deportations first."
The clash highlights a recurring tension inside Trump's camp: even as detentions, arrests and deportations rise, any acknowledgment that legal immigration can aid the economy collides with hard-line demands for maximal removals.