Promise Kept! Trump Picks Hard Core Border Czar

First, I want to say Happy Veterans Day and thank you to everyone who has served in uniform in the United States military. You are making a sacrifice, and you have made sacrifices none of the rest of us have made. We owe you our undying gratitude, particularly on Veterans Day. Thank you so much for fighting for this country, for defending this country, and for making everything we have possible.

Today, we have winning on the menu with two big Trump wins right off the bat.

Trump has now tapped Tom Homan as his new “border czar.” Tom Homan is, of course, the former acting ICE chief. In a social media post late on Sunday, Trump made his announcement:

I am pleased to announce that the Former ICE Director, and stalwart on Border Control, Tom Homan, will be joining the Trump Administration, in charge of our Nation’s Borders (“The Border Czar”), including, but not limited to, the Southern Border, the Northern Border, all Maritime, and Aviation Security. I’ve known Tom for a long time, and there is nobody better at policing and controlling our Borders. Likewise, Tom Homan will be in charge of all Deportation of Illegal Aliens back to their Country of Origin. Congratulations to Tom. I have no doubt he will do a fantastic, and long awaited for, job.

Homan is somebody who really stands up for the principles of a closed border and for legal immigration. In October during an interview with 60 Minutes’ Cecilia Vega, Homan clarified his positioning on deportation:

Vega: We have seen one estimate that says it would cost $88 billion to deport a million people a year.

Homan: I don’t know if that’s accurate or not.

Vega: Is that what American taxpayers should expect?

Homan: What price do you put on national security? Is it worth it? 

Vega: Is there a way to carry out mass deportation without separating families?

Homan: Of course there is. Families can be deported together.

Trump is serious about deporting a large number of people, and Homan is the most serious person to act as “border czar.”

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In a hearing in 2019 before the Committee on Oversight and Reform, Homan faced down the venerable intellect, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in Congress:

Ocasio-Cortez: Mr. Homan, your name is on this. Is this correct?

Homan: Yes, I signed that memo.

Ocasio-Cortez: So you are the author of the family separation policy?

Homan: I am not the author of this memo.

Ocasio-Cortez: You’re not the author, but you signed the memo?

Homan: Yes, a zero-tolerance memo.

Ocasio-Cortez: So you provided the official recommendation to Secretary Nielsen on family—for the United States to pursue family separation?

Homan: I gave Secretary Nielsen numerous recommendations on how to secure the border and save lives.

Ocasio-Cortez: But it says here that you—you gave her numerous options, but the recommendation was option three, family separation.

Homan: What I’m saying, this is not the only paper where we had given the Secretary numerous options to secure the border and save lives.

Ocasio-Cortez: And so the recommendation — of the many that you recommended — you recommended family separation.

Homan: I recommended zero tolerance.

Ocasio-Cortez: Which includes family separation.

Homan: The same as it is with every U.S. citizen parent that gets arrested when they’re with a child.

Ocasio-Cortez: Zero tolerance was interpreted as the policy that separated children from their parents?

Homan: If I get arrested for DUI and I have a young child in the car, I’m going to be separated. When I was a police officer in New York and I arrested a father for domestic violence, I separated that father from—

Ocasio-Cortez: Mr. Homan, with all due respect, legal asylees are not charged with any crime.

Homan: When you’re in the country illegally, it’s a violation of eight United States Code 1325.

Ocasio-Cortez: Seeking asylum is legal.

Homan: If you want to seek asylum, go through the port of entry, do it the legal way. The Attorney General of the United States has made that clear.

That is the new border czar. Trump was not joking when he talked about closing the border and taking the issue of illegal immigration seriously.

Tom Homan as the “border czar” was not Trump’s only announced pick over the weekend. He also announced Rep. Elise Stefanik to his choice for the U.N. ambassador role.

That’s a great job. If you have to pick any job in the American government, U.N. ambassador is a fantastic job because you have a very nice apartment in New York City, and then you go over to the U.N., which is a repository of all human scum, and yell at dictators all day. It’s a pretty phenomenal job.

Stefanik happens to be an excellent candidate for this position. Just last December, she stood up to antisemitism on college campuses. In last year’s Committee on Education and the Workforce hearing on “Holding Campus Leaders Accountable and Confronting Antisemitism,” Stefanik pressed then-Harvard University President Claudine Gay, along with several other university heads, whether allowing antisemitic chants calling for the elimination of the state of Israel was, in fact, antisemitic:

Stefanik: I will ask you one more time. Does calling for the genocide of Jews violate Harvard’s rules of bullying and harassment? Yes or no?

Gay: Antisemitic rhetoric when it crosses into conduct, that amounts to bullying, harassment, intimidation, that is actionable conduct, and we do take action.

Stefanik: So the answer is yes. That calling for the genocide of Jews violates Harvard Code of Conduct. Correct?

Gay: Again, it depends on the context.

Stefanik: It does not depend on the context the answer is yes, and this is why you should resign. These are unacceptable answers across the board.

After this hearing — and after she was found to have plagiarized multiple works, including her dissertation — Gay ended up losing her job.

So, these are all excellent picks.

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