AG Secretary Brooke Rollins Announces The Trump Admin Will NOT Offer Amnesty To Illegal Immigrants

The “panicans” won’t be happy with this one.

During a press conference on Tuesday morning, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins announced the Trump administration will not offer amnesty to illegal immigrants residing in the United States.

Rollins’ statement comes as rumors swirled that Rollins and other influential members in the agriculture industry have been persuading Trump to offer amnesty to illegal immigrants working on farms.

Watch Rollins here:

BREAKING: AG SECRETARY BROOKE ROLLINS ANNOUNCES ‘THERE WILL BE NO AMNESTY, THE MASS DEPORTATIONS WILL CONTINUE’ pic.twitter.com/A2RuXezSuk

— Jack Poso 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) July 8, 2025

Just The News covered the statement by Rollins more in-depth:

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins on Tuesday issued an unambiguous statement affirming that the Trump administration would not pursue amnesty for illegal aliens and that it sought to achieve 100% American participation in the agricultural sector.

“There will be no amnesty, the mass deportations continue but in a strategic way, and we move the workforce towards automation and 100% American participation,” she told reporters.

The announcement comes amid reports that she and members of the agricultural industry had been lobbying the administration to either pass an amnesty for illegal farm workers or to pause mass deportations and raids on farms.

The Trump administration previously issued a pause of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids at farms and hotels following pressure from both industries, though he quickly reversed course.

The announcement follows passage of the One Big, Beautiful Bill Act, which expanded funding for ICE to hire as many as 10,000 new agents and to increase detention capacity.

Just a day before Rollins made her statement, conservative influencers such as Charlie Kirk and Jack Posobiec claimed members of the Trump administration and big agriculture figures were privately advising Trump to offer amnesty to some illegal immigrants.

🚨 BREAKING: Charlie Kirk says there are efforts from high-level people within the Trump admin pushing President Trump for a bipartisan mass Amnesty Deal for Illegal Aliens

“We did not run on Mass amnesty. We ran on Mass Deportation.”

I am with @charliekirk11 100%…… pic.twitter.com/TN5dUzoH5D

— MJTruthUltra (@MJTruthUltra) July 7, 2025

Charlie Kirk is doing an entire opening monologue explaining how high-level corporate leaders are pushing President Trump to sign a bipartisan mass amnesty deal focusing on agriculture

— Jack Poso 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) July 7, 2025

The National Review reported on the Trump administration’s previously floated policy on amnesty:

President Trump wants to deport illegal immigrants, but, paradoxically, he doesn’t want certain industries to lose illegal immigrant labor. As a result, DHS recently decided it would not conduct worksite investigations or operations on the agriculture, restaurant, and hotel industries.

The new policy is a form of “administrative amnesty” for illegal workers in those industries. As with any amnesty, the recipients are allowed to remain in the U.S. for now. However, their new status comes not from Congress changing the law, but from the administration declaring it will not enforce the law against them.

How large is this amnesty? Having recently written a report on the illegal immigrant presence in each census-identified occupation, I reran the numbers based on the industries that Trump selected for protection. The results show that about 12.5 percent of illegal immigrants are covered. Since the Center for Immigration Studies estimated that there were 15.8 million illegal immigrants in the U.S. in January, that implies 2 million amnesty recipients.

As large as that number sounds, it only begins to measure the damage to immigration enforcement. For one thing, the amnesty signals to illegal immigrants that self-deportation is irrational. Because DHS manpower is limited, meaningful reductions in the illegal population require voluntary returns as a complement to direct removals. Illegal immigrants may indeed leave voluntarily if they believe their employment opportunities have diminished and their chances of forcible removal have increased. Administrative amnesty teaches them the opposite — if they find a job in a favored industry, the authorities won’t bother them.

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