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Donald Trump now supports amnesty for illegals!?

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by Frank Holmes, reporter

No president in history has campaigned harder on securing the border and deporting illegal aliens than President Donald Trump—which is why his latest move is giving his supporters political whiplash.

It came as the shock of a lifetime when President Trump announced he plans to campaign with a liberal Republican who backs amnesty for illegal aliens.

Not only did President Trump endorse Rep. Mike Lawler, R-N.Y., he plans to campaign with him this Friday, May 22, in Rockland County.

That’s a huge problem, because Lawler has sponsored a bill that could put millions of illegals on a “pathway to citizenship.”

Lawler is one of 20 House Republicans supporting an amnesty bill so contemptuous of MAGA voters that the name of the bill is in Spanish.

Lawler backs the “Dignity for Immigrants while Guarding our Nation to Ignite and Deliver the American Dream” Act, which spells out word DIGNIDAD. “Dignidad” is the Spanish word for “dignity,” so its defenders call it the “Dignity Act,” because it gives great dignity to illegals while ignoring the dignity of out-of-work Americans.

The bill, introduced by Florida RINO Rep. Maria Salazar, would start the amnesty small as a camel’s nose in the tent.

The bill “would provide amnesty and a pathway to citizenship for an estimated 2.5-2.7 million illegal aliens (so-called DREAMers),” even allowing DHS to waive prior convictions for multiple crimes besides illegally crossing the border, according to the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), “including crimes of moral turpitude, controlled substance crimes, and prostitution.”

That’s just the start. It gives a seven-year pause to deporting another 10.5 million illegals, according to FAIR.

Ultimately, the bill wants to stop immigration enforcement, give millions the right to take American jobs, and tread water until a Democratic president will sign a full-blown amnesty bill for all illegal aliens.

The DIGNIDAD Act’s supporters say the bill would not apply to the 10 million illegal aliens who entered the United States during the Biden-Harris administration…but that’s not very comforting. An MIT study puts the number of illegals who arrived in the United States from 1990 to 2016 at 22 million.

Unfortunately, that’s only one of Lawler’s disqualifying votes on President Trump’s signature issue.

Lawler even voted to extend “Temporary Protected Status” (TPS) for Haitian “migrants”—like the kind accused of eating cats in Springfield, Ohio.

“We are a generous people,” Lawler explained.

Lawler’sfull congressional  immigration voting record earned a career grade of C+ (60 percent) from NumbersUSA.

By endorsing Lawler, MAGA voters say they feel President Trump has endorsed amnesty for illegal aliens and rewarded the Democrats’ open borders.

“You can promote amnesty and keep the support of Trump. Why?” asked conservative media figure Mike Cernovich.

“At the same time Trump is trying to primary Thomas Massie he is now doing an appearance of support for Mike Lawler who literally supports amnesty. True MAGA!” said populist podcaster Saagar Enjeti.

Some people secretly question whether the president is holding the line on immigration, after campaigning on mass deportations.

When talk show host Hugh Hewitt asked President Trump in January 2025 if he would put “regularization of the Dreamers” to pass his other priorities, the president’s response was concerning.

“I’m OK with talking about the Dreamers,” Trump answered. “These are people that have been here since, in many cases birth…I’m certainly open to talking about it.”

It wasn’t the last time.

Last June, President Trump said he would not want to deport all illegal aliens, as he vowed on the campaign trail.

“We can’t take farmers and take all their people and send them back,” Trump said, because farm owners employing cheap illegals “don’t have maybe what they’re supposed to have” in terms of employees.

What they’re supposed to have is a legal workforce.

Things sounded just as depressing when CBS News asked one of the president’s staunchest immigration critics about the issue earlier this month.

CBS News asked Border Czar Tom Homan is he would support “giving legal status to the millions of people who are here illegally…including Dreamers?”

“I’m not going to get ahead of the pressident on that,” responded Homan in the May 6 interview. “The president’s talking to various members of his Cabinet. There’s discussions going on. I’m involved with some and not others.’

The White House immediately sent Homan out to clean up the mess.

“President Trump’s been clear and I’ve been clear: There will be no amnesty,” Homan told reporters the next day, May 7.

“Amnesty is off the table,” Homan confirmed on Fox News. President Trump “doesn’t support amnesty in any form. Neither do I.”

But if President Trump doesn’t support amnesty, he shouldn’t support the people who support it, either.

The Lawler endorsement has caused some conservatives to raise questions about President Trump’s endorsements in general. True, President Trump ran the table in the Republican primaries held last Tuesday, May 19: All 37 of the candidates he endorsed won their seats. But many of his endorsees opposed his agenda.

The president’s defenders point to his endorsement of immigration hawk Ken Paxton for the U.S. Senate seat from Texas over liberal Republican John Cornyn.

“There’s nothing like getting endorsed by President Trump, I think he is one of the most significant endorsements at least in my lifetime,” Paxton told Fox News host Will Cain. “If you get his endorsement, it’s the gold standard.”

But conservative critic Daniel Horowitz of The Blaze says this only shows voters have to “lead” the president into doing the right thing.

“What the Paxton endorsement shows is that it’s possible for MAGA inc. to lead Trump rather than following him off the cliff when they want to,” said Horowitz. “These are the conversations that need to happen months and weeks ahead of potential bad endorsements that destroy our bench for a generation.”

If the president won’t lead, MAGA must. A strong primary challenger should show America that Lawler is a lost cause. The only response to open borders will be mass deportations.

And the only solution to candidates who support amnesty—in either party—is being tossed out of office as brutally as possible.

About the Author

Frank Holmes is a veteran journalist and an outspoken conservative that talks about the news that was in his weekly article, “On The Holmes Front.”