Haha, and too, friends at uni kept telling me do rugby, i thought wtf? why? Rather hit a white ball that doesn't get hurt. So, yep, i played golf and screwed up the knee at lacrosse which led to a metal one now. Didn't do drugs back then except too too much of the liquid kind. The others came later in life. Spew much? Enough to develop a real successful cleansing technique.
Trump's Proposed Border Czar, Tom Homan, Is A Little Too Psyched About Mass Deportation
He was the architect of the first Trump administration's infamous family-separation and "zero-tolerance" immigration policies and that appears to have just been the start.
By Charles P. PiercePublished: Nov 12, 2024 4:14 PM EST
president trump holds a law enforcement roundtable on sanctuary cities at the white house Pool//Getty Images
As we are already aware, the president-elect is not going to make the personnel mistakes he made the last time around. No more stealth liberals like...Jeff Sessions, or Rex Tillerson. No constitutional fetishists like... General Mark Milley. The only standard this time is going to be how abjectly you have debased yourself on his behalf, and how virulently dedicated you are to his cruel and lunatic goals. Thus do we already have Elise Stefanik at the UN, Lee Zeldin at EPA, and especially Tom Homan, the newly designated "border czar" who is, in reality, the anvil under the hammer that is Stephen Miller. Homan is someone who truly belongs in a zoo.
Homan was the architect of the first Trump administration's infamous family-separation and "zero-tolerance" immigration policies. When the White House changed hands in 2020, he fell back into the welcoming embrace of wingnut welfare, and one of his gigs was writing the immigration section of Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation's game plan for American authoritarianism about which, of course, the president-elect knows nothing. In June, speaking to an audience of like-minded conservative xenophobes, Homan was quite clear about his intentions. From Semafor:
“Trump comes back in January, I’ll be on his heels coming back, and I will run the biggest deportation force this country has ever seen,” said former ICE director Tom Homan at a panel on immigration policy. “They ain’t seen shit yet. Wait until 2025.”
A year ago, The New York Times fleshed out Homan's elegantly stated policy prescription:
Mr. Trump wants to revive his first-term border policies, including banning entry by people from certain Muslim-majority nations and re-imposing a Covid 19-era policy of refusing asylum claims — though this time he would base that refusal on assertions that migrants carry other infectious diseases like tuberculosis.
He plans to scour the country for unauthorized immigrants and deport people by the millions per year. To help speed mass deportations, Mr. Trump is preparing an enormous expansion of a form of removal that does not require due process hearings. To help Immigration and Customs Enforcement carry out sweeping raids, he plans to reassign other federal agents and deputize local police officers and National Guard soldiers voluntarily contributed by Republican-run states.
To ease the strain on ICE detention facilities, Mr. Trump wants to build huge camps to detain people while their cases are processed and they await deportation flights. And to get around any refusal by Congress to appropriate the necessary funds, Mr. Trump would redirect money in the military budget, as he did in his first term to spend more on a border wall than Congress had authorized.
Gee, I wonder if there's a thought-police component to this whole plan.
In a second Trump presidency, the visas of foreign students who participated in anti-Israel or pro-Palestinian protests would be canceled. U.S. consular officials abroad will be directed to expand ideological screening of visa applicants to block people the Trump administration considers to have undesirable attitudes. People who were granted temporary protected status because they are from certain countries deemed unsafe, allowing them to lawfully live and work in the United States, would have that status revoked.
And remember how very concerned the president-elect was about the fate of our Afghan allies during the "chaotic" Biden withdrawal from that quagmire? Yeah, well, nice to see you, thanks for the help, but back to the Hindu Kush with you.
Similarly, numerous people who have been allowed to live in the country temporarily for humanitarian reasons would also lose that status and be kicked out, including tens of thousands of the Afghans who were evacuated amid the 2021 Taliban takeover and allowed to enter the United States. Afghans holding special visas granted to people who helped U.S. forces would be revetted to see if they really did.
(An aside—the president-elect's choice for his National Security Adviser, Rep. Michael Waltz, thinks we still should be there. He's another prize.)
Also, that pesky Constitution? Bosh. What's a Constitution to a man who can command a one-percent mandate of the people?
And Mr. Trump would try to end birthright citizenship for babies born in the United States to undocumented parents — by proclaiming that policy to be the new position of the government and by ordering agencies to cease issuing citizenship-affirming documents like Social Security cards and passports to them.
That policy’s legal legitimacy, like nearly all of Mr. Trump’s plans, would be virtually certain to end up before the Supreme Court.
The Supreme Court? This Supreme Court? This Supreme Court with, say, two more Kavanaughs on it? Stop, you're killing me here.
“Any activists who doubt President Trump’s resolve in the slightest are making a drastic error: Trump will unleash the vast arsenal of federal powers to implement the most spectacular migration crackdown,” Mr. Miller said, adding, “The immigration legal activists won’t know what’s happening.”
And me without a brown shirt anywhere in my closet.
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