Trump's Dump

16 June 2025

Over the past week Donald Trump has made a political U-turn, significantly deviating from the more solid immigration, deportation, and foreign policy measures proposed during his campaign and at the start of his second term.  

Trump has now suddenly ordered ICE to halt the deportation of illegal immigrants in the agriculture and hospitality industries, a move for which he has been widely praised by the liberal media. The fact of the matter is that half a year into this administration Donald Trump is still deporting illegal immigrants at the same rate that Joe Biden did. For months now we have been hearing that the necessary logistics need to be put in place in order to make mass deportations possible, which in itself is fair, but now even before the operation even really gets under way Trump is already calling for ICE to pause deportations of illegals working for hotels, restaurants, farms and food processing plants. These are industries in which almost 2 million illegal aliens are estimated to be employed in currently. 

The fact that such pragmatic concessions are now already being made even before the deportation project has even really even got off the ground is tremendously concerning and seems to indicate that Trump may be dumping his blue-collar base for the economic interests of a few big corporations.

Furthermore, despite his Secretary of State last month announcing that the Trump administration would be revoking visas for Chinese foreign students, especially those with ties to the Communist Party, Trump recently reversed course on this issued as well, even arguing that half a million more Chinese students at US Universities would somehow actually be good for the country. 

Finally, the expansion of the surveillance state under this administration represents a blasphemous overreach, contributing to the deification of the state by means of the pursuit of omniscience through mass data collection and monitoring. This idolatrous ambition to enslave people to the state is nothing short of an attempt to usurp God's authority, in the process eroding God-given rights to privacy and liberty, instead treating citizens as servants of a pseudo-divine authority. Such actions defy the biblical limits on civil authority and foster tyranny. 

On top of all this, Trump also now signaled possibly involving the US in yet another war in the Middle East, thereby radically deviating from the non-interventionist foreign policy he was elected to enact.   

The Pactum Institute and our members emphatically reject these policy changes and concessions made by the Trump administration and unequivocally call on it to honor the mandate received from its voters.