TOWNHALL | Published December 23, 2024
Incoming border czar Tom Homan vowed to begin President-elect Donald Trump’s mass deportation operation on “day one.”
HIs comments about the Trump administration’s border agenda came during an interview with CNN last week.
“Day one – ICE officers across the country will be out on the streets,” Homan told anchor Kaitlan Collins, noting there are plenty of “public safety threats” to immediately address.
“Right out of the gate — the president has made it clear, and I‘ve made it clear — the priority right out of the gates, is public safety threats and national security threats,” he said.
Given the vast number of public safety threats, Homan said these targeted enforcement operations will keep them busy.
“I looked at the data under the Biden administration, the deportation of criminal aliens have decreased 74 percent,” he said. “So, we have all those folks that the Biden administration failed to deport, plus you got this over 10 million encounters on the southern border that came across.”
Speaking over the weekend at TPUSA’s AmericaFest conference, Homan explained why he’s so passionate about border security.
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SOURCE: www.townhall.com
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THE NEW YORK POST | Published December 23, 2024
President-elect Donald Trump on Sunday pledged to commence “the largest deportation operation in American history” as soon as he takes office on Jan. 20, 2025, and mused about keeping TikTok around as well.
“On my first day back in the Oval Office, I will sign a historic slate of executive orders to close our border to illegal aliens and stop the invasion of our country,” Trump proclaimed to a friendly crowd at Turning Point Action’s AmericaFest conference in Phoenix.
“And on that same day, we will begin the largest deportation operation in American history, larger even than that of President Dwight D Eisenhower,” he added.
Throughout his 2024 campaign, Trump, 78, had vowed to undertake a mass deportation campaign against illegal immigrants residing within the US. He has tapped Tom Homan as his border czar designee to carry out that mission. Homan spoke earlier at the conservative conference.
Trump also crowed about his strong performance with young voters for a Republican candidate and credited TikTok, whose parent company ByteDance is facing a Jan. 19, 2025 deadline to either divest or face a ban of the popular video-sharing platform on the Google and Apple app stores in the US.
“I think we’re going to have to start thinking about TikTok,” Trump said. “We did go on TikTok. We had a great response with billions of views…and it was so beautiful to see.”
“I said, we got to keep this sucker around a little while.”
During his first administration, Trump signed an executive order to block the popular video-sharing site, but a court later scuttled that move.
Trump later warmed up to the platform amid efforts by billionaire GOP donor Jeff Yass, who invested in TikTok.
TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew met with the president-elect in Mar-a-Lago last week to make his case for an intervention. Trump has previously credited his campaign’s use of TikTok for his performance with younger voters and mused that sacking TikTok could be a boon for Facebook.
Underlying the divestment bill were concerns about ByteDance’s links to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and a national security surveillance law in China.
Lawmakers and experts alike have warned that through TikTok, Beijing could access a vast trove of browsing history, biometric identifiers, location data and more from US users.
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SOURCE: www.nypost.com
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