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Melania Trump became a "friend" to her husband, regarding the arrests and deportations of people she knew

2026-11-05 21:55:51Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX

Melania Trump became a "friend" to her husband, regarding the arrests

US First Lady Melania Trump has reportedly privately complained to her husband about the deportation of people she knew personally, prompting a backlash from the president against tough immigration policies crafted by his adviser Stephen Miller.

US President Donald Trump has privately expressed reservations about the way his administration is implementing its mass deportation campaign, following interventions by his wife, Melania Trump. This is one of the behind-the-scenes revelations revealed by The Wall Street Journal in a report on the president's changing stance on immigration through 2026.

According to the report, Melania Trump expressed concern to her husband about the fact that among the people arrested and deported by US authorities were people she knew personally.

Following these complaints, Trump told his aides that Stephen Miller, the White House deputy chief of staff and the main architect of tough anti-immigration policies, had gone too far.

The revelation is particularly significant, as mass deportation of immigrants was one of Trump's key presidential campaign promises and a pillar of his political agenda.

Melania called for a more limited approach to deportations

According to previous reports by The Wall Street Journal, published in March 2026, Trump had begun reviewing the way he implemented immigration policies after discussions with his advisers and his wife.

The president was convinced that some of the administration's measures had gone too far and that public opinion no longer supported the term and concept of "mass deportations."

In conversations with aides, Trump had asked Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents to focus more on people who posed a risk to public safety, instead of broad operations that caused chaos in American cities.

According to him, the target should have been primarily people involved in criminal activities, whom he described as "bad guys", and not a deportation campaign that included broad categories of immigrants.

In this regard, an important role in changing the approach was played by Susie Wiles, the White House chief of staff, who had warned that the immigration team was turning one of Trump's strongest electoral issues into a political problem for Republicans.

The clash within the administration for Stephen Miller

At the center of the debate is Stephen Miller, one of the most influential figures in the Trump administration and the main architect of the mass deportation strategy.

Miller has supported extensive ICE operations in major American cities, calling for strict implementation of the president's policies.

However, some of Trump's advisors have argued that the aggressive way of implementing these policies is producing negative political consequences.

According to a March report by the Wall Street Journal, the change in approach was also supported by Tom Homan, the White House's top border policy official. Homan preferred that ICE focus on arresting people with criminal records, especially those who could be turned over to federal agents from local jails.

The administration had temporarily suspended some of the most high-profile operations in cities like Chicago, Washington DC and Minneapolis.

However, this did not mean abandoning the objective of deporting immigrants without proper documentation, but a change in the manner and priorities of its implementation.

Political pressure and concern for public opinion

Trump's change of stance is also related to the public's reaction to ICE operations.

According to a Washington Post/ABC News poll, cited by The Wall Street Journal in March, 58% of respondents thought Trump was going too far with deportations, compared to 48% in April 2025.

This change had worried the president's advisers, who feared that a policy implemented too aggressively could damage Republican electoral support.

On the other hand, conservative groups that support mass deportations have expressed displeasure with any efforts to slow down operations. Some have called for ICE to reach its goal of one million deportations by 2026.

Stephen Miller had publicly set a goal of one million deportations by 2025, but the administration failed to come close to that level.

A contradiction between public promises and private concerns

Melania Trump's case highlights a reported contradiction within the White House: on the one hand, Donald Trump has continued to publicly defend the deportation policy and call for strict enforcement of immigration laws; on the other, in private conversations he has expressed concerns about the consequences of this campaign.

Melania Trump's intervention appears to have been one of the factors that influenced these discussions, especially when the authorities' operations affected people she knew personally.

However, the reports do not prove that the First Lady ordered the change in immigration policy or that her intervention resulted in a formal decision to halt deportations.

What stands out is that even within the president's inner circle there have been concerns about how one of the most important promises of his term was being implemented.


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