Tom Homan means business
He does indeed:
Watch Dana Bash do a double-take in shock and horror as Tom Homan explains to her that an illegal alien doesn’t have to be convicted of a serious crime to face deportation.
Amazing stuff. pic.twitter.com/QdNAgOhyEe
— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) January 21, 2025
What he’s saying there, among other things, is that the policies of “sanctuary cities” will almost inevitably cause more non-violent, low-profile illegal immigrants to be arrested and deported rather than fewer. It’s a reminder to the authorities in those cities that cooperating by allowing ICE to arrest criminal illegal aliens in prisons will be to everyone’s benefit. Will the mayors comply, or not?
Homan doesn’t mince words. He’s no diplomat; that’s for sure. And his plain talk is a reminder of how seldom we hear it these days, and how much the Overton Window has moved in the last decade or two on the subject of illegal aliens, a term I purposely use because it’s the old-fashioned legal phrase. “Undocumented”? He’s not having it. For much of the US, probably the majority of its citizens, his unvarnished speech is a relief. To others, it’s a horror – describing exactly the sort of thing they feared about the possibility of a Trump victory.
I live in the sanctuary city of Los Angeles. I have used the phrase “illegal alien” for many years now. Ignorance of basic language and the rule of law has had devastating consequences.
Sharon W (3:34 pm) has “used the phrase ‘illegal alien’ for many years now,” as have I, except on those occasions when I have referred to them in the aggregate as simply “invaders”. Let’s hear for plain language, eh?
Tom Homan needs elocution lessons. I don’t mind the plain talk at all. I would appreciate plain speaking.
Why can’t everyone sound like me?
Albert Mehrabian’s “7-38-55 Rule” – 7% verbal (words used), 38% vocal (tone, pitch, and inflection), and 55% nonverbal (body language, facial expressions, etc.).
I suspect that a huge number of non-English speaking illegal aliens understand him perfectly…
ICE Enforcement: 308 Arrests in Trump’s First Days
Plain as day – ‘worst first‘…
The US is already a de facto English/Spanish country.
The Trump/Homan “Remain in Mexico” line means no illegals going North into the USA: FROM ANYWHERE.
We’ll still get 400,000 or more H1B visa holders yearly, per yesterday’s Wall St. Journal story, most from India because they are techies which Facebook and Amazon, etc., and all tech businesses, always need more of.
It is not only a federal crime to assist an illegal in avoiding apprehension, it is a federal crime to knowingly employ illegals.
“The Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act (IIRIRA), enacted on September 30, 1996, added a new 8 U.S.C. § 1324(a)(3)(A) which makes it an offense for any person, during any 12-month period, to knowingly hire at least 10 individuals with actual knowledge that these individuals are unauthorized aliens. The basic statutory maximum penalty for violating 8 U.S.C. § 1324(a)(1)(i) and (v)(I) (alien smuggling and conspiracy) is a fine under title 18, imprisonment for not more than 10 years, or both.”
Here’s hoping that over the next 4 yrs. Homan ‘decorates’ his teepee with many, many scalps.
Go after the employers. End all benefits. Especially birthright citizenship if either parent is an illegal immigrant. No jobs + no benefits = self-deportation.