The year 2024 inspired numerous unlikely alliances, and the aftermath has created new ones: Kamala Harris voters for mass deportation.

Perhaps the most high-profile case is New York City Mayor Eric Adams, who recently met with incoming Trump Border Czar Tom Homan and vowed to cooperate with the coming mass deportations. “We’re not going to be a safe haven for those who commit repeated violent crimes against innocent migrants, immigrants and long-standing New Yorkers,” said Adams, who has ping-ponged from a die-hard advocate of the Big Apple’s sanctuary city status, to a junior official in the upcoming deporter-in-chief’s regime after Republican governors made him suffer the consequences of his policies.

But perhaps the most noteworthy is a little-known, little-remarked onetime Republican writer named Jonathan V. Last. Unlike Adams, whose city is overrun with criminals, Last lashed out at illegal immigrants for not being part of his political coalition. Last is the Never-Trump editor of The Bulwark who endorsed Joe Biden early in 2024, telling MSNBC viewers, “This is it. Joe Biden is the nominee, and you’re going to learn to love it, America.”

Last emitted a primal scream of rage when he read a ProPublica article which found Hispanic immigrants supported Donald Trump, because they felt new arrivals under the Biden-Harris administration got preferential treatment. The article quoted an illegal immigrant named Rosa, who said the treatment new illegal immigrants from Nicaragua received was “not fair,” because illegal immigrants like her who had been in the U.S. for decades “get nothing.” Rather than take that as an indication the Left had gone too far even for some illegal immigrants, Last decided Rosa was the problem.

In a December 8 post on BlueSky (a social media app marketed to liberals fleeing Elon Musk’s X), Last wrote, “Democrats should spend exactly zero political capital stopping any Trump deportation efforts. It is madness to spend capital trying to help people who are no longer a major part of your electoral coalition.”

One commentator from RedState.com responded that Last was “just saying the quiet part out loud”: The Left may be giving up the pretense that amnesty for illegal immigrants was ever anything but a political ploy.

The Left has seen uncontrolled illegal immigration, followed by mass amnesty, as the pathway to a “Permanent Democratic Majority” for decades. The authors of the 2002 book “The Emerging Democratic Majority,” John Judis and Ruy Teixeira, wrote: “Democrats can now count on about 75 percent of the minority vote in national elections. And like other Democratic-leaning groups, minorities are growing rapidly,” a fact that “strikes fear in Republican hearts.” A 2008 Salon article theorized that “the strength of the Hispanic vote” would create “A Permanent Democratic Majority.” In 2012, Jonathan Chait explained, “The Republican Party had increasingly found itself confined to white voters” and “is staring down its own demographic extinction. … In 30 years [by 2044], nonwhites will outnumber whites,” Chait noted. Then, “conservative America will soon come to be dominated, in a semi-permanent fashion, by an ascendant Democratic coalition hostile to its outlook and interests.”

Eliseo Medina, a union official and honorary chair of the Democratic Socialists of America, spilled the beans at the 2009 “America’s Future Now!” conference:

“If we reform the immigration laws — it puts 12 million people on the path to citizenship and eventually voters. Can you imagine if you had even the same ratio, two out of three [Hispanics voting for Democrats], if we get eight million new voters that care about our issue and will be voting, we will create a governing coalition for the long-term, not just for an election cycle?”

Much to their chagrin, some Hispanic voters began gravitating toward Donald Trump — at least, toward the prosperity he ushered in. That’s when the Left began to bear its fangs. After the 2020 election, NPR denounced Hispanic voters who shifted somewhat toward Trump as symptomatic of “multiracial whiteness.”

Since the 2024 election, liberals have struggled to understand why Trump performed as well as he did with Hispanic voters — although still losing them by a wide margin. Journalist Paula Ramos, who branded Trump-voting Hispanics “defectors,” chalked it up to Hispanics “leaning into the whiteness.” Former New York City Council member Carlos Menchaca asked, “Are Latinos becoming the next ‘white American’ voters?”

The Left intended to seize power using the votes of newly legalized illegal immigrants as fodder. They see their decades-long strategy may not be working. And they insist Hispanics guilty of thoughtcrime pay a price for failing to serve coastal elites as faithfully as their illegal immigrant “help.”

But many Democrats who approve of mass deportation do so honestly, not out of political spite. Fifty-four percent of New Yorkers approve of Donald Trump’s mass deportation plan, according to a Siena College poll. The survey found the proposal garners the support of 51% of black voters (who typically vote Democrat by a margin of nine-to-one) and 47% of Hispanics (who vote Democrat two-to-one). Shockingly, 38% of Democrats, including 30% of self-described liberals, also sign on.

Indeed, the backlash is not just brewing in the United States. A poll released last week found that nearly half (48%) of Canadians believe the government should adopt Trump’s policy of mass deportations for illegal immigrants. The Ledger Poll, conducted for the Association for Canadian Studies, also found 65% of Canadians believe the nation has imported too many legal immigrants.

Some Democratic governors pledge cooperation with the Trump administration — for fear of losing federal funding. President-elect Donald Trump has vowed to withhold all federal funding from any jurisdiction that does not cooperate with ICE on detainers, and incoming Border Czar Tom Homan has threatened to prosecute sanctuary city officials who defy federal immigration law. He cited specific laws penalizing those who illegally hide illegal immigrants. “18 USC, 111, impeding a federal law enforcement officer — a felony. Title Eight United States Code, 1324, triple I: if you knowingly conceal or harbor an illegal alien from ICE, that is a felony,” Homan told Fox News.

The other half of the country has already promised its support, especially for deporting criminal aliens. “Republican governors remain fully committed to supporting the Trump Administration’s efforts to deport dangerous criminals, gang members, and terrorists who are in this country illegally,” said 26 Republican governors in a statement released last Wednesday.

There is much for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials to do. In all, seven million illegal immigrants are on the non-detained docket, including 1,445,549 illegal immigrants with final deportation orders but not currently in ICE custody. According to figures obtained by Fox News, that number includes:

• 37,908 from China
• 252,044 from Mexico
• 253,413 from Guatemala
• 203,822 from El Salvador
• 32,363 from Haiti
• 22,749 from Venezuela
• 2,618 from Iran

Instead of cooperating, the Biden-Harris administration has raced to auction off the building materials for Trump’s border wall for pennies on the dollar before he can take office. Other areas have geared up for mass resistance. The Washington Post ran a headline insisting “Many targeted for removal by Trump can’t be deported.” Yet in time, President Trump and a growing coalition of Democrats may well show them, “Si, se puede!”