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    Trump names Thomas Homan as new border czar

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    Donald Trump’s Border Czar: Thomas D. Homan will serve as the incoming administration’s new immigration and southern border manager. The former director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) “will be responsible for all deportations of illegal aliens back to their country of origin,” the president-elect. he wrote on Truth Social.

    Homan, during his time at ICE in 2017 and 2018, was chief architect of the family separation policy, which involved separating children and parents who had crossed the border together so that the parents could be prosecuted. In 2018, Homan said The Department of Justice should “bring charges against sanctuary cities” and “withhold their funding.”

    When 60 minutes Cecilia Vega said Last month, Homan, an estimate “says it would cost $88 billion to deport a million people a year,” Homan replied, “I don’t know if that’s right or not.”

    “Is this what American taxpayers should expect?” Vega continued.

    “What price do you put on our national security? Is it worth it?” Homan replied.

    “Is there any way to carry out a mass deportation without separating families?” pressed Vega.

    “Of course there is,” Homan replied. “Families can be deported together.”

    Homan last year defended the old family separation policy by saying that in fact families “they chose to separate“when they broke the law.

    This new round of mass deportations will be a “humane operation,” Homan alleged on Fox News yesterday. “It will be a well-targeted, planned operation led by the men of ICE. The men and women of ICE do this every day. They’re good at it.” Given Homan’s defense of family separations for the first time, it is unclear what he considers to be “humane” or whether this is inconsistent with the American public.

    “You focus first on threats to public safety and threats to national security,” Homan said Fox, claiming that many terrorists have slipped into the country under President Joe Biden. This focus on violent criminals (some of whom were certainly let in, but are relatively few in number) is an attempt to whitewash what is actually planned for Trump’s second term: workplace raids for low-wage workers whose only crime is simply crossing into the country in the first place, who in many cases have tried to pursue legal avenues to consolidate their status, but have few options available to them.

    This type of raid has it didn’t happen under The Biden administrationbut Homan says they will resume after Jan. 20, when Trump returns to office.

    Such crackdowns — such as the 2018 raids that targeted meat processing plants in ohio or the The 2019 wave targeting chicken processing plants in rural Mississippi – can throw entire communities into disarray, crippling their economies and leaving tons of jobs vacant at jobs looted by immigration agents.

    Scenes from New York: Relevant to the above, but a bit of a New York tangent.

    “President (Donald) Trump’s (deportation) plan will be a cost saver for the American people,” said Tom Homan said Fox. “Because this administration is paying for free plane tickets all over the country, free hotel rooms at $500 a night, free education, free healthcare and that’s in perpetuity … they’re paying $500 a night for a room hotel in New York City, meanwhile, there are empty ICE beds at $127 a night, so President Trump’s plan will save taxpayers money over time!

    Homan’s numbers are exaggerated, but the point is at least partially correct. The budget commitments get more troubling the deeper you dig: The city comptroller reports as of last year that the city’s Department of Homeless Services (which also handles asylum seekers awaiting court dates) contracts with about three dozen hotels, being paid daily. rates of $55–$385 per day. Our Mayor, Eric Adams, started a “reticketing“, where migrants can apply for one-way plane tickets, either domestic or international, and have them paid for by taxpayers, as part of an initiative to get illegal immigrants — which are costly to taxpayers because of the city. the agreement decree regarding the right to shelter (which now Stop after 30 days)—out.

    The governments of Texas and Florida are certainly not fiscally innocent, having spent a good chunk of change busing immigrants to New York, Sacramento, Chicago and Martha’s Vineyard as stunts to get blue state liberals to start shouldering some of the social costs.

    The thing that is perhaps hardest to swallow about how much taxpayers have been forced to pay: To what extent does this politically sabotage the case for raising legal immigration quotas? When immigrants are seen as welfare scum rather than productive members of society and the workforce, there is surely more political will behind deportation squads.

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    • Representative Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, a Democrat, just won re-election to her seat in a rural red Washington district. She has some chosen words for her own party: “The fundamental mistake people make is condescension. Many elected officials are insensitive to the way they disrespect people.”
    • “About a week after the September debate, Mr. Trump began spending heavily on a television ad that blasted Ms. Harris for her stance on a seemingly obscure topic: the use of taxpayer funds to fund surgeries for transgender inmates . “Every transgender inmate in the prison system would have access,” Ms. Harris said in a 2019 clip used in the ad.” on The New York Times. “But the ad, with its vivid tagline – “Kamala is for them/them. President Trump is for you’ — passed Mr. Trump’s tests to a degree that stunned some of his aides.”
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