President-elect Trump's designated border czar, Tom Homan, is a man of action and unfiltered speechcraft. Those are two truisms you can take to the bank.
Mr Homan is taking to his designated office like Brer Rabbit to a briar patch - begging to be thrown in. He can handle the brambles like nobody's business.
LEMME AT 'EM
Since getting tapped as Trump's guy, he has been issuing pugnacious promises of punitive penalties to follow if the simple federal rules of cooperation with Trump plans for stanching and reversing the illegal immigration hordes swamping the country are, if not embraced, at least not physically impeded by soft-hearted sanctuary cities and counties.
Homan has been like an evangelist for change, traveling the country while spreading the gospel of deportation plans for those who swarmed our wide-open borders, with ringing condemnations of those who facilitated the crisis and those who continue to harbor illegals.
This is exactly what we need! Tom Homan, absolutely destroy AOC with nothing but facts
— Johnny Midnight ⚡️ (@its_The_Dr) December 10, 2024
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He has little patience for sanctuary mentalities...
60 minutes: Is there a way to carry out mass deportation without separating families?
— Tim Young (@TimRunsHisMouth) November 6, 2024
Tom Homan: "Of course there is. Families can be deported together."
Put Tom Homan in charge of ICE! pic.twitter.com/fcS48fKu41
...when we have spent the past almost four years being subjected to the largest immigration surge in American history, almost all of it illegal.
The US has seen its largest surge in immigration in its history under the Biden Administration — surpassing the Ellis Island-era migration boom that changed the face of the nation forever, according to a shocking new analysis.
An average of 2.4 million immigrants per year poured into the US between 2021 and 2024, according to the Congressional Budget Office. About 60% of the migrants crossed into the US illegally, a Goldman Sachs analysis found.
The total net migration during the Biden administration is expected to reach more than 8 million — exceeding even the pace of new arrivals to the US during the 1850s when the portion of foreign-born residents exploded, according to a New York Times analysis.
Trump has appointed the hard-nosed, no-nonsense Homan border czar for a reason. As AOC found out, he can quote the laws he is enforcing, in chapter and verse - laws that have been flouted through the whole of the Biden era to the detriment of every American citizen.
But you've got to start the deportations somewhere, and somewhere with a big problem would be best because then you show that the administration means business...not that anyone doubts the two of them.
But blue cities don't convince easily until things become uncomfortable for them.
New York might have been a good starting point at one time, but Mayor Eric Adams has had a come-to-Jesus awakening lately. He's willing to work with Trump on any manner of issues, including the illegals, within the framework of what state law allows and even then some. Trump is nothing if not magnanimous, so he's graciously leaving that city alone.
But somebody else isn't as smart as Adams and tries hard multiple times every single day to prove he's the country's worst mayor.
Earlier this month, Chicago's Brandon Johnson was doubling and tripling down on the city's 'sanctuary status' and his job as mayor 'protecting the families' and 'Chicago values.'
Mass deportation alert: 🚨
— Tom Homan - Border Czar Commentary and News (@TomHoman_) December 2, 2024
Chicago, Illinois, Mayor Brandon Johnson reaffirms his commitment to Chicago to keep it a sanctuary city and push back against President Trump’s mass deportation operations.
“We will not bend or break,” Mayor Brandon Johnson said.
Yet over 51,000… pic.twitter.com/xcSzcvWfpj
Johnson had the over-sized ego of the Illinois governor talking smack as his backup.
IL Gov. Pritzker: "I will do everything that I can to protect our undocumented immigrants. They are residents of our state." pic.twitter.com/7f1Fp7ZgkY
— Julio Rosas (@Julio_Rosas11) November 14, 2024
Yeah, well. Guess what? Decision's been made on where it all starts.
President-elect Donald Trump's border czar Tom Homan has revealed that the nation's largest mass deportation effort will begin in Chicago.
Homan, 63, the former acting head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement during Trump's first term, laid out his plans to remove migrants who illegally crossed the southern border.
Homan, appearing at a GOP fundraiser in the city on Monday, used what local media described as 'salty language' to first explain why Chicago was in such a dire state...
Tom Homan in Chicago: "Chicago is in trouble because your mayor SUCKS and your governor SUCKS"
— 🇺🇸 ʟᴇғᴛ ᴄᴏᴀˢᴛ ᴠᴀɢʀᴀɴᴛ 🇺🇸 (@Baklava_USA) December 12, 2024
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...and then proceeded to lay down the law about the planned deportations and how he expected the mayor to conduct himself.
Border Czar Tom Homan's tough words on Chicago Mayor: "We're going to start right here in Chicago, Illinois. If your Chicago mayor doesn't want to help, he can step aside. But if he impedes us if he knowingly harbors or conceals an illegal alien I will prosecute him." pic.twitter.com/xi62dvyoBA
— Real Mac Report (@RealMacReport) December 11, 2024
Homan did lay out elements of the deportation scheme as they are envisioning it right now.
...Migrants who have committed crimes while in the United States will be the first to be targeted - followed by legal migrants, including asylum seekers and those who entered the US with humanitarian parole under the Biden Administration.
Homan said on Monday he would work on verifying the status of asylum seekers and arrest anyone who is found to be harboring criminal migrants.
He also reiterated that there is no plan in place to separate families, though he suggested 'it may happen.
'My goal is to enforce the law, but if you put yourself in that position, it may happen,' the incoming border czar said. 'But there's no plan in this administration right now to separate families.'
'However, we're going to enforce the law. So if you put yourself in that position it's on you,' he said, declaring that parents of Dreamers - the children of migrants born in the United States - have two options.
'You can either take a child home with your or they just stay here,' Homan said. 'But you don't get a pass.'
...He also said those who do not qualify for asylum through the courts system would be ordered to be deported.
'If we don't, what the hell are we doing? Shut down immigration court?' he asked, rhetorically.
'There's no more consequences. We have to remove them if the law requires.'
...'So it's not a sweep, it's not an uncontrolled operation. It's a very targeted operation.'
The enterprising grifters at the Chicago Teachers Union issued a social media fit of the vapors. Fewer illegals would impact their very fat bottom line, that's true and what a pity if they lost out.
Chicago doesn’t need to be afraid of Homan, the criminals who happen to be illegal aliens need to be afraid.
— Libs Of Chicago (@Libs_OfChicago) December 10, 2024
Not sure what CTU has to do with the immigration system, maybe sit this one out. https://t.co/QfyP4KD61Q
A froggy progressive Democratic congresswoman challenged Homan to 'be ready to meet the resistance' and...what was that I was saying about chapter and verse?
..."Message received. Please review 18 USC 111 and also see 8 USC 1324 (iii)," Homan told Fox News Digital in an interview on Wednesday. "Game on."
He was referring to two laws, one prohibiting impeding a federal law enforcement officer and the other prohibiting the harboring or concealing of illegal immigrants from immigration officers.
"So, message received, please review this statute and that statute and game on," he said.
Now, I'm not sure she got the message, but HO, BOY. It sounds like Gov Pritzker might have, even as he kept up the bad boy bluster.
...Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker on Wednesday said he believes "violent criminals" living in the U.S. illegally should be deported, but pushed back against incoming border czar Tom Homan’s threats of mass deportations.
The remarks came during a press conference, with the governor reacting to Homan’s statement made in Chicago Tuesday. While speaking in the sanctuary city, Homan called on Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, who is vocally opposed to the incoming border czar's plans, to get out of his way.
..."We have laws that protect undocumented immigrants, and I'm going to make sure to follow the law,” the governor said. “I'm concerned that the Trump administration and his lackeys aren't going to follow the law, but I will."
The Prairie State governor added, however, he is in alignment with Homan over threats noncitizens convicted of "violent" crimes pose to his state and the nation. These individuals, he said, do not belong in the country and should be deported.
'Trump lackeys' - oh, nice touch, gov.
Let's talk budgets for a moment, shall we? After a $357M surplus this year, Illinois is facing deficits of $384M in 2025 and $625M in 2026, while Mayor Snowflake is looking at being short $229M in 2024 and a whopping $982.4M (!) for next year. Yeah - almost a billion dollars short of cash.
Sure, guys. Hang tough.
You don't need that stinkin' federal cash.
Chicago is bleeding out. All the feds have to do is invoke some non-cooperation argle-bargle, and the city is housing, feeding, and handing out cha-ching to their 50K+ illegals all on their own dime.
I'd bet this is probably why Pritzker's moderating his rhetoric a tad. He's a little sharper on the uptake than Johnson, but not by much.
We have to see if someone can take Johnson aside and get him cooled down long enough to convince him to ixnay the social justice warrior act for a little bit.
Either way, Homan's been kind enough to let them know he's coming and what he will do when he arrives.
Pretty much all up to them whether to play ball or not, and it's going to be entertaining af if they don't.
Whatever happens, it will be 'message sent' to the rest of the sanctuaries.
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