Donald Trump is facing a revolt from his most loyal MAGA supporters over fears the largest mass deportation effort in US history could unravel within the next 24 hours amid talks to wind down operations in Minneapolis.

The arrival of White House Border Czar Tom Homan on the scene may be a relief to rank-and-file ICE agents who increasingly see Kristi Noem as a haphazard leader. 

But there’s now a palpable fear among Trump’s most fervent supporters that the leadership swap could foretell a significant change in immigration strategy and lead to capitulation to the left.

Homan’s top priority, according to sources, will be coordinating negotiations between Minnesota Democratic state leaders and the White House in the wake of an agent’s killing of ICU nurse Alex Pretti.

Immigration hardliners warn that any deal by Homan that leads ICE agents to scale back their presence in Minnesota will be seen as a collapse of Trump’s mass deportation agenda and a win for liberal protesters. 

These concerns come after Trump said in a Fox News interview on Tuesday that Homeland Security would ‘deescalate a little bit’ in Minneapolis.

Mike Howell, president of the Oversight Project and a longtime ally of Homan who has just been sent to Minnesota, is praying that his longtime friend won’t strike any deal with the Democrats who run the state. Howell has a longstanding professional relationship with Homan that goes back years over their shared views on immigration.

Rather, he said, Homan should hold the line and even surge more forces into the Twin Cities to avoid handing protesters a victory that could spell the end of the movement.

‘The mass deportation agenda could be completely wound back within the next 24 hours,’ Howell told the Daily Mail on Tuesday. 

It’s unclear what Homan’s strategy will be during his negotiations with Democratic leaders and the ultimate decision will be left for Trump to decide. 

A source close to the White House warned that if Trump blinks on mass deportations it would be the ‘biggest betrayal’ of Republican voters since George H.W. Bush broke his no-new-taxes promise and watched his presidency unravel in 1993.

‘If Trump backs down on deportations, he might as well pack it in. It will be the biggest betrayal to the base since George HW Bush raised taxes,’ the White House insider told the Daily Mail.

Immigration hardliners are warning Trump’s Border Czar Tom Homan not to back in Minnesota as fears grow the largest mass deportation effort in U.S. history could unravel within the next 24 hours

Riots have intensified across Minneapolis ever since the fatal shootings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti by immigration agents

Moments before Alex Pretti (on the ground) was fatally shot in the Minnesota city on Saturday

Howell agrees adding, ‘This is a pivotal moment that will determine immigration enforcement operations for the years to come. If a rioters’ veto is allowed to limit or redirect immigration enforcement operations, then the administration has lost control of the mass deportation agenda.’

After the death of Renee Good, a 37-year-old mother of three fatally shot by an ICE agent during federal enforcement operations in Minneapolis, protesters across the Twin Cities have actively hampered ICE efforts tied to the president’s deportation push. 

Trump told reporters on the White House lawn that he was not backing off from his immigration agenda, and blamed Democratic leaders for flooding the cities with illegals. 

However, DHS has now set controversial Border Patrol commander Gregory Bovino, a close Noem alley, packing to California as Homan prepares to take control of the operation.

Conservative influencers supportive of mass deportation criticized DHS leaders for abandoning Bovino following the deadly shootings.

Nick Sortor, a conservative media personality famous for filming viral moments of protesters fighting with immigration agents, claimed in a Tuesday interview that border patrol agents have been ordered not to arrest ‘non-criminal’ undocumented immigrants.

Sortor pointed to complaints from border agents left behind in Minnesota after the exile of Bovino, saying they were told to stand down even when a license plate showed a person was in the country illegally. Bovino left Minnesota on Monday with a handful of close Border Patrol. 

Howell told the Daily Mail he was concerned to see Bovino and some of his agents withdrawn from Minneapolis because it will benefit Democratic leaders like Gov. Tim Walz.

‘Any time you’re removing resources from an area like that, it appears to be a negotiating tactic with Frey and Walz, and I don’t know why we’re negotiating with people behind the violent riots against the U.S. government.’

Noem and her close allies on the ground were sidelined in Minneapolis following the outrage over the weekend shooting of Alex Pretti

Trump made his entire 2024 campaign centered on instituting mass deportations across the country

Howell advised the White House that it is time to double down on deportations by making it completely unviable for illegal aliens to remain in the United States.

During his Trump’s first year in office, the administration did not meet the President’s promise of deporting one million illegal immigration. ICE and Border Patrol deported upwards of 675,000 noncitizens, according to DHS end of year tally for 2025. 

Trump rode back into the Oval Office a year ago after running his entire 2024 campaign on instituting mass deportations across the country in response to outrage at mass migration at the southern border.

However, a new Daily Mail poll reveals that Trump’s approval ratings have collapsed to record lows, and his signature issue of immigration is now proving to be an albatross around his neck.

Another Daily Mail survey found that American voters are turning on ICE: 53 percent of registered voters think the immigration raids should now end.

Howell is now urging Homan and the White House to not let public perception based on media reports dictate the outcome of the future deportations objectives.

‘They should focus on quantity and not what they think is the best political communications quality,’ he concluded. ‘So that means if you want to deport a high quantity, you go to places where there’s concentrations of illegal aliens, like worksite enforcement.’