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‘Been Wanting It For Years’: NYC Man Tells Don Lemon He Loves Trump Admin Deporting Illegal Immigrants

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A New York City man told former CNN host Don Lemon that he supported President Donald Trump’s deportation efforts during a livestream on his YouTube channel on Sunday.

The Trump administration has endeavored to keep the president’s campaign promise of conducting large-scale deportation operations, with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) confirming that it will not slow down even amid the ongoing federal government shutdown. During the interview on Lemon’s channel, the man said he had been yearning for a president to conduct deportations like Trump, even as the former CNN host claimed Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) was allegedly brutalizing migrants.

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“I feel good about them,” the man said when Lemon asked for his feelings about the ICE raids taking place. When Lemon followed up by asking the man if he desired a crackdown, he said he would like the administration to ramp up even more.

“Been wanting it for years — all my life,” he said.

Lemon asserted without evidence or context that ICE was “roughing people up,” which the man made clear he did not support.

“At the same time, get them out of here. Get them all out of here, please and thank you,” the man said. “Trump four more years for that. Just for that.”

The man argued that illegal immigrants take jobs from Americans even as Lemon attempted to persuade him they do undesirable jobs that Americans won’t do.

DHS announced in September that over 2 million illegal migrants had self-deported or “been removed” from the U.S. in the first 250 days of the president’s second term.

Moreover, the Trump administration has achieved four months in a row without paroling a single illegal migrant into the U.S., according to data published by Customs and Border Protection (CBP) in September. Border Patrol agents made 6,319 apprehensions along the southern border in August, leading to an average of just 204 arrests per day.

There were just under 26,200 border encounters nationwide in August, a number that was 93% lower than the pinnacle under former President Joe Biden’s administration, according to the data.