Greene says Trump will perform ‘mass deportations on day 1’ if reelected

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) hyped up Iowa caucusgoers Monday with a rousing speech praising former President Trump, urging the voters to caucus for Trump and reelect him in 2024.

The congresswoman focused on immigration policy in her speech in Boone, pledging her and Trump’s support for “mass deportations” if he is reelection.

“We have to fight for a secure border, and President Trump will do that, and he will start mass deportations on day 1,” she said, to roaring applause. “And I can’t wait to see it happen.”

Trump has doubled down on harsh immigration rhetoric during his 2024 campaign, pledging the largest deportation campaign in American history if he is reelected and using increasingly authoritarian rhetoric surrounding the issue.

The former president has said migrants are “poisoning the blood of our country,” a sentiment that has proved popular with his base despite drawing critical comparisons to Nazi rhetoric.

He has also pledged a return and expansion of the travel ban that targeted Muslim countries, which was denounced by civil rights groups as racist and xenophobic when he first introduced it in 2017, as well as promised to end birthright citizenship.

Greene, one of Trump’s most vocal supporters in Congress, called migrants “terrorists” in the Monday speech and directly compared them to Hamas militants. 

“They’re in our country, and you can bet many of them are terrorists who would like to attack our country here just like Israel was attacked by the Hamas terrorists over there,” she said.

Trump easily won the Iowa caucuses Monday. 

“The people of Iowa sent a clear message tonight: Donald Trump will be the next Republican nominee for President. It’s now time to make him the next President of the United States,” Alex Pfeiffer, communications director for the pro-Trump super PAC Make America Great Again Inc., said in a statement after the Iowa race was called.