Mass deportation is the central promise of President Trump's second term, and Jenny Beth Martin sits down with Mike Howell, president of the Oversight Project and a founding member of the Mass Deportation Coalition, to walk through the new playbook designed to make it happen. The Mass Deportation Coalition Playbook lays out 21 specific recommendations for getting to one million deportations in 2026, and Mike Howell explains every one of them in plain English on this episode of The Jenny Beth Show. Topics include worksite enforcement and why the institutional Republican donor class is quietly fighting it, the Eisenhower-era operation that removed a million illegal aliens in 1954, the Selective Service compliance angle that could trigger criminal prosecutions for hundreds of thousands of military-age illegal alien males, the 287G partnership program that has Florida's 67 sheriffs leading the country, the staggering hospital costs Texas and Florida have already documented, and Mike Howell's blistering assessment of the so-called Dignity Act and the 20 House Republicans backing it. Jenny Beth also opens the show with a rapid update from her trip to Alaska with Scott Pressler advancing the Save America Act, including events in Fairbanks and Anchorage with Senator Murkowski's constituents. To take action, call the Capitol switchboard at 202-224-3121 and tell both of your United States senators to vote for the Save America Act, or visit passthesaveamericaact.com. Learn more at teapartypatriots.org and jennybethshow.com.
Mike Howell is president of the Oversight Project and a founding member of the Mass Deportation Coalition. He has spent years inside Washington's immigration policy fights, leading oversight investigations into the federal immigration system, and was a central architect of the new Mass Deportation Coalition Playbook released in April 2026.
Key topics covered:
00:17 — Welcome and Save America Act update from Alaska
01:16 — Topic shift to immigration and the Mass Deportation Coalition
04:13 — Mike Howell on the formation of the Mass Deportation Coalition
06:30 — Why deportation matters: rule of law and self-government
09:00 — Federal authority over immigration policy
10:53 — Walking through the 21 recommendations
12:00 — Recommendation 1: Worksite enforcement and the Eisenhower model
16:14 — Recommendation 2: Moving employment verification online
17:42 — Recommendation 3: Debanking illegal aliens
18:14 — Recommendation 4: Expanding immigration detention
20:56 — Recommendation 5: Selective Service and criminal prosecutions
23:23 — Recommendation 6: Denying visas to recalcitrant countries
24:07 — Recommendation 7: Substantially limiting asylum
24:52 — Recommendation 8: Civil fines for failure to depart
26:07 — Recommendation 9: Civil asset forfeiture
26:52 — Recommendation 10: Targeting visa overstays
27:58 — Recommendation 11: NCIC database integration
30:36 — Recommendation 12: Transferring no-match letters to the IRS
31:17 — Recommendation 13: Department of Labor authorities
33:05 — Recommendation 14: Special Assistant United States Attorneys
34:14 — Recommendation 15: Reassigning DHS officers
34:40 — Recommendation 16: Homeland Security Task Force
35:48 — Recommendation 17: Other procedures to deport criminal aliens
36:27 — Recommendation 18: Litigating challenges vigorously
38:26 — Recommendation 19: Leveraging states and the 287G program
43:00 — State-by-state illegal alien population numbers
46:13 — Recommendation 20: Tracking and publicizing benchmarks
48:24 — Recommendation 21: Keeping HSI tethered to immigration enforcement
52:41 — How to take action with the Mass Deportation Coalition
55:47 — Mike Howell on the so-called Dignity Act
57:17 — Lighthearted close: the Trump Air Force 47s
57:48 — Wrap and personal anniversary shoutout
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