Texas is shaping up to be Donald Trump's last stand.
Trump ally and MAGA warrior Steve Bannon is urging the president to send troops into Texas cities as Democrats who swept the state in last week's midterms move to dismantle Trump's deportation machine.
'This is an emergency.
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This has to happen now,' Trump's former chief strategist urged the president in an exclusive interview with the Daily Mail.
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'You have to lean into this.'
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Aaron Reitz, Trump's top federal prosecutor in Houston, said that his attorneys are now 'the last men standing,' and that the risk of Texas cities becoming a 'Minneapolis-style insane asylum' has 'increased significantly.'
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The Daily Mail can exclusively reveal that the US attorney's office in Houston is 'actively looking at' an order signed by the city's Democratic mayor last Friday limiting police cooperation with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
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Bannon said Democrats in power now want to seize 'the jewel in the crown of the union' and turn it into a sanctuary state.
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If they succeed, he warned, 'you're never going to get the country back.
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Holding the line now falls to Stephen Miller, the architect of Trump's deportation crackdown, who replaced Susie Wiles as White House chief of staff Friday.
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'Miller is the biggest middle finger you can possibly have,' said Matt Mackowiak, former senior adviser on Cornyn's senate reelection campaign and president of Potomac Strategy Group.
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Donald Trump wears a cowboy hat in the Oval Office
A migrant crouches under barbed wire watched by a soldier at the Rio Grande in El Paso, Texas
Stephen Miller's first real challenge as Trump's new chief of staff will be fighting Democrats in Texas over mass deportations
He predicted Miller will steer the White House in a 'very, very hard line direction,' ignoring subpoenas and ramping up ICE deportations that have already reached historic highs.
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On Tuesday, CBS News reported that ICE deported a record 483,200 people in the fiscal year that closed on September 30.
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Mackowiak said Miller's appointment was deeply unpopular with Republicans on Capitol Hill, estimating it was 'probably popular with 20 percent of House members and I would say less than five percent of Republican senators.
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'It means Trump learned nothing from the election,' he said.
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'It means he doesn't care about the message voters sent.'
Federal agents shot dead two American citizens as chaos broke out in Minneapolis during the immigration crackdown in January, sparking a revolt nationwide against Trump's strict immigration policies.
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Come November, voters overwhelmingly rejected ICE actions, according to midterm exit polls, ushering in the 'Blue-nami' wave of Democrats into office.
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Mackowiak argued voters would have backed a crackdown on migrants who commit crimes, but the raids on Home Depot sites went 'way over the top.'
'The message Trump got is, "Nope, you know what, I lost [the midterms] cause I didn't deport enough people,"' he said.
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'So Stephen Miller is going to go figure out how to deport more people.
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Bannon would agree, telling the Daily Mail that he believes Miller will be 'as hardline as possible.
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'Hey, this ain't Minnesota, right?
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This is Texas,' he added.
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Miller has previously asserted that Trump has the legal right to seize control of a state's National Guard, telling CNN in October last year that the president 'has the authority anytime he believes federal resources are insufficient to federalize the National Guard to carry out a mission necessary for public safety.'
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Trump deployed troops in Illinois and Oregon that month, ignoring the objections of Democratic governors.
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They included 400 Texas National Guard members volunteered by then-Governor Greg Abbott.
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The Supreme Court blocked the Chicago deployment 6-3 in December, ruling that Trump had likely overstepped his authority.
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The president then yanked the Guard out of Chicago, Los Angeles and Portland.
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The Texas National Guard will now answer to Governor-elect Gina Hinojosa from January 19.
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Texas Governor-elect Gina Hinojosa speaks at a press conference in Austin, Texas
The Daily Mail can exclusively reveal that the US attorney's office in Houston is 'actively looking at' an order signed by the city's Democratic mayor last Friday limiting police cooperation with ICE
Steve Bannon is urging the president to send troops into Texas cities as the Democrats who swept the state last week move to dismantle Trump's deportation machine
Migrants stream across the Texas border in May 2023 during the Biden border crisis
In an interview with 60 Minutes on Sunday, Trump said that the deportation push had been 'too tough' and floated a deal with Democrats to let migrants stay in the US.
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Bannon, however, has insisted the president 'shouldn't even have a conversation' with Democrats about amnesty 'because it can't be trusted.
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'I think ICE will stay the course, for now,' a former senior ICE official told the Daily Mail.
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Mackowiak said Miller fought Trump endorsing incumbent Cornyn in the Texas Senate primary 'at every step,' and it worked.
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Trump backed scandal-plagued Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton instead.
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But Paxton lost by 12 points, and Republicans lost every office in the state Trump carried by about 13 points just two years prior.
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'In a way it's kind of fitting and ironic that Stephen Miller's idiotic political analysis of the US Senate race in Texas is now going to create massive policy and governmental problems in Texas,' Mackowiak said.
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Indeed, the Democrat sweep could create problems for Republicans in the 2028 election.
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Texas carries 40 electoral votes, the second-largest haul in the country after California.
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'There's not one person with a working brain who believes Republicans can hold the White House without Texas,' Mackowiak said.
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Bannon warned Republicans 'will never win the Electoral College back' if Texas moves towards becoming a sanctuary state, and wants Miller to cut off 'every penny' of federal money to the cities that defy ICE.
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The fear rests on the census, which counts every resident, citizen or not, when House seats and electoral votes are shared out every ten years.
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Bannon claims a sanctuary Texas would draw 'another 10 or 15 million in one year' and that Democrats would 'turn them into voters,' handing a blue Texas an even bigger share of Congress and the Electoral College.
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Mackowiak said Miller fought Trump endorsing Cornyn in the Texas Senate primary 'at every step,' and it worked.
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