A Republican Governor had one deal for Donald Trump that was music to his ears

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Planning is underway for Donald Trump’s second term in the White House. 

He’s going to have some unexpected help in enacting his agenda. 

And a Republican Governor had one deal for Donald Trump that was music to his ears. 

Oklahoma Governor is helping with Donald Trump’s mass deportation operation 

Democrat Governors and Mayors are lining up to fight President-elect Donald Trump’s plan for mass deportation of illegal aliens. 

Now, he has red states coming to his aide. 

Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt (R) announced that his state was going to turn illegal immigrants to the federal government to deport. 

He tapped Oklahoma Commissioner of Public Safety Tim Tipton to identify illegal aliens who are in prison in the state to be part of the first wave of deportations. 

“We want to be ready Day 1 in office — when President Trump takes office. I put our commissioner of public safety in charge and I said, ‘Listen, everybody that’s in our prisons that are here illegally, that are breaking our laws, we believe in public safety,” Stitt said. 

Oklahoma records indicate that there are more than 500 illegal immigrants in state prisons, plus countless more serving time in county jails.

“We want to protect the citizens of Oklahoma and we want to be ready to get them out of our state and out of our country before you see another one of the issues that affected Georgia with the Laken Riley case,” Stitt explained. 

The state is working with the Trump transition team and will have a plan by January to deport illegal immigrants who are incarcerated in the state.

Removing illegal immigrants from jail will save Oklahoma money

Oklahoma estimated that it costs the state $36,000 a day to house an illegal immigrant in the state prison. 

“So these are people that are here illegally, that have committed crimes, and we want to make sure that they’re not burdensome to the taxpayers of the state of Oklahoma,” Stitt said. 

The Oklahoma Governor was surprised that so many Democrats were willing to go to the mattresses to defend illegal immigrants who are violent criminals. 

“What’s amazing to me is you have some Democrat Governors that are now talking about not supporting President Trump, and I don’t think they learned anything from the election, that the American people want safe communities, and we want to have strong borders,” Stitt remarked. 

The Trump administration is targeting illegal immigrants who’ve been convicted of crime first. 

“When you think about someone that’s here illegally, that’s breaking the law, that’s pushing fentanyl, or they have been convicted of rape or burglary, and they’re not U.S. citizens, and they’re here illegally,” Stitt declared. “I don’t know who could argue with me on ‘We want to make sure that those people are out of our country and not allowed to return.’”

Oklahoma has seen fentanyl deaths spike by 500% since Stitt was first elected in 2018. 

He said his state has suffered from the border crisis that President Joe Biden has created. 

Deporting illegal immigrants will be a much smoother process if more states cooperate with the Trump administration’s plans.