Donald Trump’s border czar: Thomas D. Homan will be the new administration’s new immigration and southern border official. The former director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) “will be responsible for all deportations of illegal aliens to their countries of origin,” the president-elect said. wrote on Social Truth.

Homan, throughout his tenure at ICE in 2017 and 2018, was a leader architect of the family separation policy, which involves separating children and parents who have crossed the border together so that the parents can be criminally prosecuted. In 2018, Homan said the Department of Justice should “file charges against sanctuary cities” and “withhold their funding.”

When 60 minutes’ Cécilia Vega said Homan said last month that one estimate “says it would cost $88 billion to deport a million people a year,” Homan responded: “I don’t know if that’s accurate or not.”

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

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

“Is there a way to carry out mass deportations without separating families? Vega urged.

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

Homan last year defended the old family separation policy, saying that in reality families “chose to separate“when they violated the law.

This new series of mass deportations will be a “human operation”, says Homan claimed on Fox News yesterday. “This will be a well-targeted, planned operation carried out by the men of ICE. The men and women of ICE do this every day. They are good at it.” Given Homan’s first defense of family separations, it is unclear what he considers “humane” or whether this is out of step with the American public.

“You focus first on public safety threats and national security threats,” Homan said. said Fox, saying many terrorists have infiltrated the country under President Joe Biden. This focus on violent criminals (some of whom have surely been admitted, but are relatively few in number) is an attempt to whitewash what is actually planned for Trump’s second term: workplace raids on hard-working workers. low-wage workers whose only crime is simply entering the country. of the country in the first place, who have in many cases attempted to follow legal channels to consolidate their status, but have few options available.

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

Such crackdowns, like the 2018 raids that targeted meat processing plants in ohio or the 2019 wave targeting chicken processing plants in rural Mississippi – can throw entire communities into disarray, ruin their economies, and leave tons of vacant job openings in workplaces ransacked by immigration enforcement.

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

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

Homan’s figures are exaggerated, but the point is at least partly right. Budget commitments become more and more worrisome the deeper you dig: The city comptroller’s office reports that, as of last year, the city’s Department of Homeless Services (which also deals with asylum seekers asylum awaiting court appearance) has entered into a contract with around thirty hotels and is paid daily. rate of $55 to $385 per day. Our mayor, Eric Adams, launched a “re-ticketing” program, in which migrants can apply for one-way, domestic and international plane tickets, and have them paid for by taxpayers, as part of an initiative to attract illegal immigrants, who are costly to taxpayers because of the city. decree of consent to the right to housing (who now ends after 30 days) – outside.

The governments of Texas and Florida are of course not innocent financially, since they spent a good part of the currency transport migrants to New York, Sacramento, Chicago and Martha’s Vineyard as a way to get blue state liberals to start shouldering some of the cost of welfare.

The hardest thing to swallow about the amount taxpayers have been forced to pay: To what extent does this politically sabotage the case for increasing legal immigration quotas? When immigrants are seen as welfare drifters, and not productive members of society and the job market, there is surely more political will behind deportation teams.

QUICK SHOTS

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– Liz Wolfe (@LizWolfeReason) November 8, 2024

• Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, a Democrat, was just re-elected to her seat in a rural red district in Washington. She has some words of choice for his own party: “The fundamental mistake people make is condescension. Many elected officials are insensitive to their lack of respect for people.”
• “About a week after the September debate, Mr. Trump began spending big money on a television ad that hammered Ms. Harris for her position on a seemingly obscure issue: using taxpayer money to finance surgeries for transgender inmates. “Every transgender inmate in the prison system would have access to them,” Ms. Harris said in a 2019 clip used in the ad, “ by The New York Times. “But the ad, with its striking slogan – ‘Kamala is for them. President Trump is for you’ – broke through in Mr. Trump’s tests to a degree that stunned some of his aides.”
• “The new Trump administration would theoretically be able to replace the heads of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on day one, at least on an interim basis,” reports Bloomberg. “These two officials play a crucial role in the process of proposing and enacting new regulations, and banks are already taking the opportunity to begin advocating for appointments seen as more favorable to the sector.”
• Interesting:

Well then! Trump announces on Truth Social that he “will not invite former Ambassador Nikki Haley, nor former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, to join the Trump administration, currently in formation.” pic.twitter.com/aKZuYd2yx9

– Meridith McGraw (@meridithmcgraw) November 9, 2024

• Call me cynical, but land acknowledgments were never intended for Native people in the first place; it was a way to signal to other upper-middle-class progressives.

Land acknowledgments should now recognize that Native Americans voted against the people doing the land acknowledgments.

-Alice (@AliceFromQueens) November 11, 2024