Posted on 01/21/2025 2:14:32 PM PST by Morgana
Border czar Tom Homan on Tuesday said that the mass deportation operation has already started, as the Trump administration looks to make good on promises to tackle the border crisis and crack down against illegal immigration.
"No, it started [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] teams are out there as of today," Homan said on "America’s Newsroom." "We gave them direction to prioritize public safety threats that we're looking for. We've been working up the target list."
The administration has promised to launch a "historic" mass deportation operation, and sources told Fox News Digital that arrests were being planned on "day one." Some media outlets reported on Friday about an operation in Chicago, but Homan said that was re-evaluated due to the leak of information.
"There was some discussion about Chicago because the specific operational plan was released. So we had to look at and reevaluate, ‘Does this raise officer safety concerns?’ And it does. But we've addressed that and teams are out there, effective today," he said.
As for who will be targeted in the operation, Homan said that the priority are public safety threats, but he has said repeatedly that no-one is "off the table" when it comes to arrests if they’re in the U.S. illegally.
"Right out of the gate it’s public safety threats, those who are in the country illegally that have been convicted, arrested for serious crime," he said. "But let me be clear. There's not only public safety threats that will be arrested, because in sanctuary cities, we're not allowed to get that public safety threat in the jail, which means we got to go to the neighborhood and find him."
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Oh, noes!!!
Everyone needs to toughen up. This ain’t gonna be easy. But it’s now or never.
Forget the ice cream truck, here comes the scream ICE truck.
Chicago is ICE cold today so they should be looking into warming shelters as well as churches.
It was said today that to deport a single illegal it costs $17,000 and they are flown 1st class back to their home nation...
Check the Catholic and Episcopal churches first.
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If they are caught a second time, put them in Sheriff Joe tent work-camps in orange jumpsuits surrounded by razor wire.
It’s the only way we can deal with boomerangs; a second offense, in any event, by fedlaw carries a five year sentence.
The left wants to make the argument that they are “subject to our jurisdiction” under the 14th?
No. Not for “birthright citizenship”, no. But they are when they break our laws.
Give ‘em a kayak and toss ‘em into the Gulf of Eskimoes, they will have a nice tailwind, and be in Veracruz by siesta time.
“Chicago is ICE cold today so they should be looking into warming shelters as well as churches.”
Have you seen the snow in florida today?
So we fly them in the cargo hold of a C-5M Super Galaxy
“But let me be clear. There’s not only public safety threats that will be arrested, because in sanctuary cities, we’re not allowed to get that public safety threat in the jail, which means we got to go to the neighborhood and find him.”
“And when we find him, he may be with others. And unlike the last administration, we’re not going to tell ICE officers not to arrest an illegal alien. So if they find, others will be arrested. So sanctuary cities will get exactly what they don’t want, more agents in their neighborhoods and more collateral arrests,” he said.”
Makes a pretty stark choice for sanctuary cities.
.....s illegal immigration continued along the Mexican border, sixty-two Canadian border units were transferred south for a large-scale repatriation effort. In 1952, the government airlifted 52,000 illegal immigrants back to the Mexican interior. The program was terminated after it ran out of funds during its first year. The Mexican government offered train rides into the Mexican interior for nationals being returned from the San Antonio and Los Angeles districts, but this program was halted after only five months. Throughout the early 1950s, a special taskforce of 800 Border Patrol agents was assigned by the United States Attorney General to round up and ship home thousands of illegal immigrants in southern California. The task force moved to the lower Rio Grande valley, then to Chicago and other interior cities. The Border Patrol began expelling adult Mexican males by boatlift from Port Isabel, Texas, to Vera Cruz in September 1954. The project was discontinued two years later after nearly 50,000 noncitizens had been returned home. Various other flights, train trips, and bus trips originated along the border and terminated in the Mexican interior. In spite of the major successes in repatriation, many deportees simply turned around and recrossed the seriously undermanned border. Repatriation programs proved extremely expensive and were phased out primarily because of cost.....
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