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:
- The formation of the Mass Deportation Coalition as a counterforce to the institutional Republican donor class
- All 21 recommendations from the new playbook in plain English
- The Eisenhower-era worksite enforcement model that removed a million illegal aliens in 1954
- Selective Service non-compliance as a federal criminal prosecution lever
- The 287G state partnership program and Florida's leadership
- State-by-state illegal alien population numbers and the hospital cost burden
- Why released deportation statistics need to be republished
- Mike Howell's verdict on the so-called Dignity Act and the 20 House Republican co-sponsors
- A Save America Act update from Jenny Beth's events in Alaska with Scott Pressler
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
Links mentioned:
- Mass Deportation Coalition Playbook: massdeportationcoalition.org/playbook
- Pass the Save America Act: passthesaveamericaact.com
- Capitol Switchboard: 202-224-3121
- The Jenny Beth Show: jennybethshow.com
- Tea Party Patriots Action: teapartypatriots.org