Today’s notice: We are live from the House GOP retreat in Florida, where it’s actually nice to be outside. More on the abortion politics of now. More DOGE, more places. And: How to sell an immigration crackdown.
The TV-Ready Face of Hard-Line Immigration Policies
Immigration in Donald Trump’s first term can be seen as something of a failed PR effort. Family separations at the border became a series of ugly images that led to a policy walk back. NOTUS’ Casey Murray reports on the administration’s fresh PR approach to its hard-line policies toward migrants: embedding Dr. Phil with Tom Homan and ICE officers in Chicago over the weekend.
Opponents of Trump’s policies told Casey they have long expected the administration “to try and make a huge PR stunt out of apprehensions and deportations.” They see it as conservatives learning from what went wrong, which perhaps can also be seen in the early focus on criminals and photos of Air Force jets full of single men.