BANNON SAYS TRUMP WILL LAUNCH MASS DEPORTATION — NOT MASS INCARCERATION

Former White House adviser Steve Bannon rejected claims on MSNBC that President Trump’s immigration agenda amounts to "mass incarceration," defending the administration’s criminal justice reforms such as the First Step Act. Bannon argued the First Step Act represented a compassionate, bipartisan break from mass imprisonment and distinguished incarceration from deportation. He said Trump intends to pursue large-scale deportations of undocumented immigrants, framing those actions as enforcement rather than incarceration, and criticized MSNBC for what he called misinformation.