Bostonians should be very proud of their
Mayor, #MichelleWu // She has #Boston 's back.
#NewEngland #Homan #Immigration #ice #DailyKos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcVEaZGnlns

I’m all for equity and inclusion in hiring practices, but I’m really not sure making a bag of reconstituted pork products the ‘border czar’ was a good idea. But maybe that’s just me *shrug*

Trump is sending people to #GITMO who entered the countrylegally!!

"39% of the detainees disappeared to the Guantanamo offshore prison were deemed "low threat" by the Trump administration. Some of the individuals being detained at Guantanamo did not cross illegally, legally requesting asylum at a port of entry."
-D Bier

Donald Trump’s "border czar" has admitted that authorities have found it “hard” to find undocumented immigrants with criminal records.
In an interview with CNN’s Dana Bash on State of the Union,
#Tom #Homan said that whole teams of Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers are having to raid neighborhoods to carry out the administration’s deportation plans.
“It is hard because rather than one man arresting one bad guy in a jail, we’ve got to send a whole team to the field to find someone that doesn’t want to be found,” he said in an interview Sunday.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/border-czar-whines-its-been-hard-to-find-undocumented-immigrants/

So Homan (acting head of ICE) claims to have "forgot more about immigration law than #AOC will ever know."

Then fine. I accept that may be possible.

And in response I fully expect #Homan to acknowledge his faulty memory and promptly resign, so there be a head of #ICE that actually remembers #immigration law.

I mean yeah, I've forgotten more about OSF/ #Motif than many (at the time) experts ever knew...but that doesn't mean I'm in any hurry to claim that I'm an expert in it NOW. I forgot. That leaves me (without a refresher course) unqualified to head any OSF/Motif project, should any still exist.

Wenn das kein #Faschismus ist, was soll #Fascism sonst sein? #Trump Grenzschutzbeauftragter Tom #Homan will #AOC dafür #verklagen , dass sie per #Webinar #Flüchtlinge und #sanspapiers zu ihren Rechten informiert hat. Das ist wie im 3. Reich, als ab der #Machergreifung der Staat strukturell und brutal gegen #Demokraten und #jüdische #Mitbürger vorging. Boah, was isses #abstoßend ! Die #usa sind keine liberale Demokratie mehr! #uspol

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/border-czar-prosecute-aoc-immigrants-rights-1235269988/

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) fired back at #Tom #Homan, Trump’s "border czar",
after he suggested that she could be “in trouble” for advice she is giving to immigrants if they are targeted in one of Homan’s raids.

“Believe it or not, in America EVERYONE has rights,” she wrote on X.
“Citizen or not, we all should know our rights to protect ourselves and others from illegal search & seizure.”

She included graphics reminding people that they don’t have to allow authorities into their home without a warrant, and that they have a right to remain silent when questioned

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/alexandra-ocasio-cortez-tom-homan-immigration_n_67aebe26e4b035ea23a4d50a

Homan is claiming people in Chicago are so well educated by Know Your Rights pamphlets that ICE is having difficulty arresting people & deporting them.

ICE, w/their guns, battering rams, search warrants & an $8.7 billion budget is being thwarted by pamphlets?!

No, it’s Homan’s failure as a leader.

“…as for Homan’s ‘fresh’ idea of creating a hotline, well, there is already an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) tipline where you can report crimes like document and benefit fraud, illegal immigration, human trafficking, and many other offenses. It has existed for more than twenty years, and it takes 15,000 calls a month.”

Homan is cruel and incompetent.

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/the-fear-is-the-point

Trump border chief threatens jail for Denver mayor amid deportation dispute

#Tom #Homan, Donald Trump’s hardline incoming #border #czar, has threatened to put the mayor of #Denver in jail
after the latter said he was willing to risk incarceration to resist the president-elect’s migrant mass deportation plan.

The threat was issued against #Mike #Johnston, a Democrat, who said he was not afraid of being jailed and encouraged people to protest against mass round-ups of immigrants in their cities and communities.

Johnston’s remarks came after Trump focused during the presidential election campaign on the Denver suburb of #Aurora, which he said had become “a war zone” where apartment buildings had been taken over by Venezuelan gang members.

Asked to respond by Fox News’s Sean Hannity, Homan said: “Me and the Denver mayor, we agree on one thing;
he’s willing to go to jail. I’m willing to put him in jail.”

Johnston had originally been asked by a local Denver television station to respond to Homan’s previous vows to arrest local leaders and politicians who stood in the way of deportation efforts.
He said he was not willing to go to jail, though he is “not afraid of that” in a Friday interview with 9 News.

“I think the goal is we want to be able to negotiate with reasonable people how to solve hard problems,” he told the outlet.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/26/trump-tom-homan-border-denver?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

In February 2022, #Tom #Homan went to the Orlando World Center Marriott in Orlando, Florida, and took a seat among a group of young #white #supremacists.

Homan — who oversaw former President Donald Trump’s brutal anti-immigrant regime as acting head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement
and who under former President Barack Obama was responsible for record-high levels of deportations as the head of ICE’s deportation branch
— had been invited to speak at the "American First Political Action Conference".

As HuffPost first reported at the time, Homan claimed he was unaware of what the #AFPAC was all about
— his assistant had booked him at the event, he said, and had likely confused America First, the event’s organizer, with another right-wing group.

Sitting at the table, waiting for the event to begin, Homan got out his phone and looked up Nick Fuentes, the leader of America First, and came across a bunch of articles labeling him a “white nationalist.”

This didn’t prompt Homan to get up and leave. He was skeptical of the label “white nationalist.”

After all, he knew what it was like to be unfairly labeled a bigot and a racist during his time overseeing ICE. Maybe Fuentes had suffered the same injustice.

But then he read that Fuentes had praised Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. Homan got up from the table, leaving the conference before it began.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/tom-homan-white-supremacist-event-border-czar-trump_n_67326794e4b07ebab74212ff

"Trump's New Border Czar Receives Death Threats"

https://www.newsweek.com/trump-border-czar-death-threats-1983938

Trump Caught Cheering Extremist Project He Says He Knows Nothing About

On Thursday, MSNBC dug up a clip from 2022 of Trump expressing some pretty convincing familiarity with the people behind #Project2025
—and potentially hinting at knowing that the document was in the works.

“Our country is going to hell. The critical job of institutions such as Heritjes to [sic] lay the groundwork,” Trump stumbled.

“And Heridges does such an incredible job at that,” Trump added, stumbling again.

“They’re going to lay the groundwork and detail plans for exactly what our movement will do and what your movement will do, when the American people give us a colossal mandate to save America, and that’s coming,” Trump said, seeming to imply Project 2025.

The comments were made during an April 2022 keynote speech by Trump at a Heritage Foundation event where he was introduced by Heritage Foundation President Kevin #Roberts.

In that speech, he praised Heritage Board Chairman Barb Van #Andel-#Gaby as well as Heritage fellows Tom #Homan and Mark #Morgan

—all of whom he now claims he doesn’t know at all.

“Already we have shown the power of our winning formula,
working closely with many of the great people at Heritage over the four incredible years that we’ve worked with you a lot and we were just discussing it with Kevin,” Trump said during the 2022 speech in his typical rambling style.

“They’re going to work on some other things that are going to be very exciting, I think, Kevin, I think maybe the most exciting of all.”

@MarvClowder
https://newrepublic.com/post/183735/trump-caught-cheering-project-2025-video