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How the Man Behind Trump’s Deportation Plan Found MAGA
The New York Times ^ | Jan. 17, 2025 Updated 12:18 p.m. ET | Alexandra Berzon and Hamed Aleaziz

Posted on 01/17/2025 7:04:38 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum

In 2016, Thomas D. Homan was a frustrated immigration bureaucrat ready to call it quits.

A former border patrol agent with a lawman’s steely demeanor, he had been an odd fit for the Obama administration. Top officials would call on him when they wanted a hard-liner’s take. But his proposals — including an early version of the controversial family separation policy to deter migrants — were often rejected.

In the years since, Donald J. Trump’s rise has fully unleashed Mr. Homan and his ideas. In Mr. Trump’s first administration, Mr. Homan helped make the family separation policy a chaotic reality. And in the second, Mr. Homan is poised to be the White House “border czar,” tasked with making good on the incoming president’s promise to carry out the largest deportation campaign in American history.

Mr. Homan’s ascent completes his transformation from dutiful official in a Democratic administration to full-throated Trump world fixture.

Where he once signed off on transgender care guidelines and the Obama administration’s targeted immigration policy, he now endorses far-right theories about immigration and elections. He has boasted that he is completely unbothered by criticism of the family separation policy.

When he was first approached about joining a second Trump administration, Mr. Homan says he told Mr. Trump that he was so angry about the border that “I’ll come back for free.” Mr. Homan, whose post does not require Senate confirmation, has acknowledged his mission is virtually impossible, much less in four years. Mr. Trump has vowed to remove all of the roughly 11 million people in the country illegally — which experts say is far-fetched and would be shockingly disruptive if carried out.

Yet Mr. Homan has described plans for a methodical and aggressive campaign. He has said he intends to focus on deporting “the worst...

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TOPICS: Humor
KEYWORDS: alexandraberzon; hamedaleaziz; immigration; nytsedition; tomhoman
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Mr. Homan’s ascent completes his transformation from dutiful official in a Democratic administration to full-throated Trump world fixture.

Works for me.

1 posted on 01/17/2025 7:04:38 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Tom Homan is a patriot. He is in the tradition of the old ones like Samuel Adams and Francis Marion.

He will get the job done.


2 posted on 01/17/2025 7:30:22 PM PST by Candor7 (Ask not for whom the Trump Trolls,He trolls for thee!),<img src="" width=500</img><a href="">tag</a>)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“the roughly 11 million people in the country illegally”

That’s funny right there. The number is at least twice that. I hadn’t realized The NY Times had turned into a comedy rag.


3 posted on 01/17/2025 7:42:32 PM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
I read this as Homan's saying "we'll eat the elephant (mass deportation) one bite at a time." There is no way to do the job in one swell foop, but prioritizing the worst of the illegals is the smart way to do the job.

Indeed, just returning the worst ten percent from whence they came will be a huge net positive for These United States. This country has already proven, in past in-migrations, that people can assimilate IF THEY WANT TO. Assuming that there are places for those who want to work. The Democrats can go a long way to provide those work slots in their businesses.

4 posted on 01/17/2025 7:45:16 PM PST by asinclair (It's too bad there will never be a RICO indictment of the DNC.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“ he had been an odd fit for the Obama administration……But his proposals — including an early version of the controversial family separation policy to deter migrants — were often rejected”.

I bet.


5 posted on 01/17/2025 7:46:52 PM PST by Beowulf9 ( )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Family separation? Why didn’t the New York Times check out the tens of thousands of children ‘lost’ under the Biden Administration? Guess they would have a hard time explaining how a 5 year old girl could ‘pick crops’... Maybe the Times is in bed with the pimps who sell children ... what else could make them so blind? We might never know.,


6 posted on 01/17/2025 7:47:46 PM PST by GOPJ (AMERICA FOR AMERICANS if anyone wants to live in an overpopulated hellhole they can MOVE there..)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“has fully unleashed Mr. Homan and his ideas.“

I think the author was crying when he wrote this.


7 posted on 01/17/2025 7:55:34 PM PST by iamgalt
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Hmmm so a Democrat saw the Democrat party slide into sleazy human trafficking and deliberate neglect of border security and decided his duty, and his country, took precedence over party loyalty.

No wonder, the complete lack of anything resembling a principal or an ethic staff, at the NY Slimes is confused. Obviously they cannot possible comprehend any person acting like an ethical rational adult instead of their sort of mindless political party whores


8 posted on 01/17/2025 7:58:46 PM PST by MNJohnnie (Don't blame me, my congressman is MTG!)
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To: FreedomPoster

We heard TWENTY MILLION about 20 years ago. They let in at least another 10 million the past four years.

I’ve heard them trot out the ridiculous 11 million number a few times lately.


9 posted on 01/17/2025 8:00:37 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (They were the FA-est of times, they were the FO-est of times.)
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Marco Rubio destroys Kristen Walker in his defense of mass deportations. Absolutely brilliant answer.

Seriously this is how absolutely every single Republican must talk about deportations because this is the truth and this is where we are as a country because of the last four… pic.twitter.com/oyDK8MHJdl— Insurrection Barbie (@DefiyantlyFree) January 17, 2025


10 posted on 01/17/2025 8:10:26 PM PST by combat_boots
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

People please, NYT articles are behind a paywall.


11 posted on 01/17/2025 8:22:44 PM PST by yldstrk
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

They had an X video of a trailer full of painted ICE trucks in Texas. I like to dream.


12 posted on 01/17/2025 8:32:57 PM PST by struggle
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

He looked! He listened! He learned!

He is with us!

HUZZAH!


13 posted on 01/17/2025 9:06:14 PM PST by Taxman (MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! SUPPORT THE FAIRTAX!)
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To: FreedomPoster

It was 11 million when Clinton was in office.


14 posted on 01/17/2025 10:37:10 PM PST by SpaceBar
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To: FreedomPoster

Rubio called out CNN’s little liar on air for using those numbers.


15 posted on 01/17/2025 10:43:50 PM PST by Luke21
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

NYT ?

Really Sucks. Always Lies. Never has a clue.


16 posted on 01/17/2025 11:52:13 PM PST by Texas Fossil (Texas is not about where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind and Attitude.)
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To: FreedomPoster

Going back to the time of Ronald Reagan, my estimate is close to 70 million and that might be a conservative estimate.

Hopefully the criminal element will garner the most interest, at least in the beginning.


17 posted on 01/18/2025 12:55:43 AM PST by wita (Under oath 1966 in defense of Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness)
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To: wita

The nice part of this is, the people who oppose us are rapid and vapid and unable to NOT protest Trump’s actions.

I think if you start by deporting the worst of the worst, the left will make a big public screaming match about it, and they look like idiots.


18 posted on 01/18/2025 2:00:32 AM PST by Ueriah
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To: Candor7

Exactly.


19 posted on 01/18/2025 3:23:46 AM PST by Bigg Red (Trump will be sworn in under a shower of confetti made from the tattered remains of the Rat Party.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Pretty sad that this poorly-written piece is the product of not one but two minds. And, just based on the excerpt, it appears that neither bothered to proofread.

FTA:

Mr. Homan, whose post does not require Senate confirmation, has acknowledged his mission is virtually impossible, much less in four years.


20 posted on 01/18/2025 3:29:58 AM PST by Bigg Red (Trump will be sworn in under a shower of confetti made from the tattered remains of the Rat Party.)
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