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'Confused, angry and frustrated' MAGA supporters fed up with Trump's DHS

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Hardcore supporters of President Donald Trump who are enamored with his anti-immigrant policies are less in love with the numbers coming out of the Department of Homeland Security. When they can get them. Trump's base is turning on the administration over what they view as deliberately inflated deportation claims and a failure to deliver on campaign promises. The crack in the MAGA coalition is widening as immigration hardliners realize they've been played, The Dispatch is reporting. The problem is transparency. According to the report, DHS has stopped releasing the underlying data that would back up its press release deportation claims. "Since January 2025, the Trump administration has stopped releasing data tables from the DHS statistics office that break down how many people have been removed from the country, under what circumstances, and by which enforcement agency. Other agency-specific data sources have also not been updated since Trump took office, including the ICE statistics p

First report: MAGA Isn’t Buying the Deportation Numbers — thedispatch.com, 15d