Border Czar: Trump Is Happy With Deportations, ‘But We’ll Make Him a Lot Happier’
Opposition swells, as Chicago politician calls immigration policy “unconscionable”
The Trump administration is only getting started with plans to deport migrants living in the United States, according to Donald Trump’s point man for the policy.
Meanwhile, opposition to the mass deportations is growing, as more Americans speak out against the efforts. That includes a local politician in Chicago.
Trump, during the campaign, vowed to detain and deport millions of undocumented migrants living in the United States. And he began making good on that promise within days of being sworn-in as president a week ago.
Agents from US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) have been rounding up immigrants living across the country, and reportedly have been given quotas that they are expected to meet in the deportation objectives.
Trump’s new border czar, Tom Homan, was asked by a Fox News host if the president was happy with the deportations thus far.
“Oh, I think the president’s happy but we’re going to make him a lot happier. Yesterday was just Day One and these raids are going to go out throughout the country. We’re not going to let up, we put our foot on the gas and we’re going to go,” Homan said. “And as I explained to several stations yesterday, the aperture continued to grow. Right now we’re concentrating on public safety threats and national security threats. But as we open up the aperture, look for fugitives, those who had due process at great taxpayer expenses, over a million of them, 1.4 million, they’re on the table.
“Anybody in the country illegally, they’re on the table, but we’re going to go after them in a prioritization that makes sense. The worst first.”
The Trump administration is pursuing ICE raids in churches and even elementary schools, which is sparking a growing resistance to the deportations.
“For many Chicagoans, this week has felt like an eternity given the weight of the federal government, coming not to help Chicagoans feel safer, but to create panic and chaos, as we heard from the reporter,” Chicago Alderman Byron Sigcho-Lopez told a CNN host. “We’ve seen Secret Service coming to target the schools, the panic, that is, to bring the immigration czar, so-called, with Dr. Phil even, in creating this as some sort of reality show, playing with the real fear of students, children, families who are terrified by the misinformation, by the threats of mass deportation, now they’re saying that this is a targeted surgical procedure, quote, unquote.
“But the fear that we see by students, by children, by families, by our neighbors, it isn’t called for. The unconscionable decision of targeting not only schools, churches,” Sigcho-Lopez added. “We saw, they targeted one of our churches in our community by some MAGA fanatics, coming, harassing our pastor, one of the local pastors, also trying to target hospitals. It’s unconscionable, the fear that is creating, this is not making anyone safe, it’s actually decline, hurting our businesses, hurting our city and it’s unconscionable that we see this from the White House.
“A president should be calling on actually addressing inflation, addressing so many of the issues on the ground. It is unconscionable that they are scapegoating and targeting immigrant communities and creating serious harm in our city.”
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