Secretary of State Marco Rubio just announced that 20 nations have signed agreements to accept the deportation of their citizens who are in the United States illegally — and somewhere, a whole lot of open-borders advocates just choked on their lattes.
Remember when we were told this was impossible? That other countries would never cooperate? That deportation was a "logistical fantasy"? Turns out all it took was a president who actually picks up the phone and means business.
Rubio made the announcement at a White House Cabinet meeting on Tuesday, laying out the strategy in terms even CNN could understand. "A part of securing our border is dealing with the people that are in this country unlawfully, many of whom do not want to go back to the country that they originally came from," Rubio said. No kidding, Marco. That's kind of been the whole problem.
But here's where it gets good. "One of the key things we have achieved is now 20 countries have signed third-country national agreements," Rubio explained. What does that mean in plain English? It means if an illegal alien from, say, Venezuela refuses to go home, we can now send them to one of these 20 cooperating nations instead.
And that little detail is doing some beautiful work all by itself.
"These are safe countries where individuals who refuse to go back to their country of origin can be sent to that country instead," Rubio continued. And then he dropped the kicker: "What often happens when you go to the person who's here unlawfully and say, 'We're going to send you to this third country,' is all of a sudden they decide they'd rather go back to their home country instead."
Funny how that works. You tell someone they're going to a random third country instead of staying in the land of free EBT cards and sanctuary cities, and suddenly the homeland doesn't look so bad after all. It's almost like — and stay with me here — leverage works.
For years, the Department of Homeland Security under previous administrations threw its hands up and said deportation was functionally impossible because countries wouldn't accept returns. That was never a bug — it was a feature. They didn't want to deport anyone. They wanted to manage the invasion, not stop it.
President Trump and his team flipped the script. Instead of begging, they applied pressure. Instead of accepting "no," they made "no" expensive. And now we've got 20 countries lining up to cooperate. That's not diplomacy — that's the art of the deal in action.
As Newsmax reported, this announcement represents a major shift in America's deportation capabilities. The third-country agreements effectively eliminate the single biggest excuse the left has used for decades to block removals.
We spent four years under Biden watching millions pour across the border while the White House insisted there was nothing they could do. Now we've got a Secretary of State announcing 20 international agreements at a Cabinet meeting like it's a Tuesday.
Because it is a Tuesday. And this is what winning looks like when you put adults back in charge.