'They're Not With You': DHS Chief Floats a DACA Deal After the Midterms, and Ingraham Delivers the Base's Message

By Oreo Express | November 10, 2026

Photo: DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin on Fox News' The Ingraham Angle, Nov. 10, 2026. Still from the official Fox News interview video.

One week after the midterms, the talk coming out of the Department of Homeland Security has a lot of the base asking a simple question: whose side are we on?

DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin went on Fox News' "The Ingraham Angle" Tuesday night to promise there is "zero change" to immigration enforcement. And Laura Ingraham told him straight to his face what millions of Trump voters are thinking about any amnesty-style deal with Democrats: "They're not with you."

Watch Mullin on Fox News' The Ingraham Angle:

Here's how we got here.

On Monday, Mullin told reporters at a counter-drone conference in Maryland that "a lot of Democrats" had reached out about working together on immigration in the new Congress, and that President Trump encouraged him to work with them. Then he floated this, according to Fox News: "If we want to have an immigration reform to where we can look at DACA and figure out a way that these individuals can become maybe legal permanent citizens or something like this, that'll be up to Congress."

Permanent legal status for illegal aliens under DACA. That's amnesty, no matter what they call it. One week after an election loss. That's the message?

In the same breath, Mullin said, "We're never going to allow amnesty to happen." You can't have it both ways. Turning DACA into permanent residency is a path to legal status for illegal aliens. Call it what you want. The base knows what it is. It's amnesty.

This comes after President Trump told "60 Minutes" on Sunday the deportation push might be too tough. The backlash was immediate, and by Monday the President shut it down: "There's NO AMNESTY... My policy hasn't changed." Good. That's the Trump we voted for.

On Ingraham, Mullin tried to put the fire out. "Zero change. The president made that very clear. We're still going after the worst of the worst and amnesty will never be on the table," he said. He said DHS is deporting roughly 3,600 people a day and hasn't slowed down, going after "the murderers and the rapists and child predators and drug bankers and cartel members."

He also got this part exactly right: "You can't trust the Democrat Party we've been working with at all. You can't, because nothing's enough for them." And he called out who's really steering the left: "You got DSA that's running the Democrat Party right now. They want to defund my agency, the Department of Homeland Security."

So if the Democrats can't be trusted and DSA wants to defund DHS, why is anyone in this administration talking about a DACA deal with them?

Ingraham asked exactly that. "But why does he float DACA, Mr. Secretary? Why is that the message for you guys of this election?" Mullin said before anything happens, they'd make sure the base is on board. That's when Ingraham cut in: "They're not with you. They're not with you. I'm just saying this."

Mullin's fallback is the veto. "The president has made it very clear he controls the veto," he said. "If they were to send something over that the president and the Republicans don't agree with, he can veto it and he will veto it."

Here's some context the DACA crowd never mentions. Back in March, DHS itself posted on X that DACA "does not confer any form of legal status in this country." The department said ICE arrested 264 DACA recipients between January 20 and September 28, 2025, and more than 92% of them had been charged with or convicted of a crime in the United States.

I covered the border during the Biden years. I saw what Democrat open-border policy did to this country. I saw what happens when Washington goes soft. Every whisper of "reform" and "pathways" is a green light to the cartels and a sign that the line can move. The line can't move.

The midterms didn't happen because Americans want more illegal aliens in this country. Nobody lost a race because the border was too secure. If Republicans and this administration read last week as a reason to cut amnesty deals with the same Democrats who opened the border, they've learned the wrong lesson.

Zero change means zero change. No amnesty. No DACA deal. Keep the deportations going, keep the border shut, and keep that veto pen ready. The base is watching.

Sources:

Fox News (Nov. 10, Mullin on Ingraham): https://www.foxnews.com/politics/mullin-vows-zero-change-immigration-republicans-suffer-crushing-midterm-losses

Mediaite: https://www.mediaite.com/media/tv/foxs-laura-ingraham-bluntly-warns-markwayne-mullin-maga-is-not-with-you-on-possible-amnesty-deal/

Fox News (Nov. 9, Mullin DACA remarks): https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-tells-dhs-chief-work-democrats-immigration-reform-no-amnesty

Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/11/09/border-security-mullin-drone-trump-deportations/f1def68e-dc75-11f1-912c-4fbb80d73f7f_story.html

Rapid Response 47 on X (Trump "NO AMNESTY"): https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/2119913091165311254