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