Anonymous ID: c6a0c8 Nov. 23, 2024, 3:53 a.m. No.22042564   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Were we not told border would close on day one?

 

Homan to Newsmax: Border Closed in Matter of Months; Quick Fixes on Day 1

https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/tom-homan-newsmax-donald-trump/2024/11/22/id/1189140/

 

Tom Homan, President-elect Donald Trump's point man for the mass deportation of illegal immigrants, told Newsmax on Friday there are several steps Trump can take to immediately help ease the border crisis, though it could take a few months to stabilize the situation.

 

Homan told "American Agenda" that on day one, Trump can end the catch-and-release policy embraced by the Biden administration, where illegal immigrants caught at the border were released into the U.S.

 

He also advocated for something similar to the safe third country agreement in the first Trump administration, where asylum seekers traveling through a Central American country were required to first seek protection there. The U.S. has such an agreement with Canada.

 

Homan said bringing back the "Remain in Mexico" policy, where asylum seekers would stay in Mexico until their U.S. immigration cases are heard, will be the real game changer, but that will require cooperation from the Mexican government.

 

"The president got a mandate from the American people," Homan said. "There are things he can do immediately: End catch-and-release, put the safe third country agreements in there; both game changers. But Remain in Mexico is the biggest-game changer. I know discussions already are happening.

 

"If we can get the Remain in Mexico program back in quickly, that will move the numbers down incredibly. But ending catch-and-release on day one is going to send a strong message to the world: You can't cross this border illegally, which is a crime, and get released into the United States. You will be detained or removed. You take a choice."

 

Regarding deportations, Homan said a plan is being developed to first target criminal illegal immigrants.

 

"There are plenty of criminals to arrest," he said. "If you look at the data between the Trump administration and the Biden administration, the deportations are at an all-time low. Deportations of illegal aliens with criminal convictions is down 74%, even though the Biden administration lied to the American people saying public safety threats are going to be the main priority. They weren't.

 

"We've got a target-rich environment. We've got over 700,000 illegal aliens with a felony conviction walking the streets. So, they'll be a target [as] national security threats. I want to send a clear message. Prioritization doesn't mean everybody else is off the table. If you're in the United States illegally, you've got a problem."

Anonymous ID: c6a0c8 Nov. 23, 2024, 3:56 a.m. No.22042566   🗄️.is 🔗kun

He's wanting to get people killed in Denver.

 

Denver Mayor: Thwart Deportations With 'Tiananmen Square Moment'

https://www.newsmax.com/politics/trump-mike-johntson-denver/2024/11/22/id/1189142/

 

Denver Mayor Mike Johnston has threatened a "Tiananmen Square moment" using tens of thousands of Mile High City residents to prevent President-elect Donald Trump from his plan to deport illegal immigrants.

 

"More than us having [federal agents] stationed at the county line to keep them out, you would have 50,000 Denverites there," Johnston said to The Denverite on Wednesday.

 

"It's like the Tiananmen Square moment, right?" said Johnston, referring to the infamous image of a Chinese student and People's Liberation Army tank coming face to face in Tiananmen Square in China during the 1989 uprising.

 

"You'd have every one of those Highland moms who came out for the migrants. And you do not want to mess with them," the mayor said.

 

Trump made illegal immigration and its impact on society a key issue of his campaign, promising to conduct mass deportations once elected.

 

"We're going to have the largest deportation in the history of our country," Trump said last month during a speech in Los Angeles. "And we're going to start with Springfield and Aurora."

 

Aurora City Councilwoman Danielle Jurinsky told the New York Post that Johnston's plan "will just further show how unproductive he is in one of the country's so-called sanctuary cities, which discourage or prevent local authorities from cooperating with federal immigration agents in the case of migrants."

 

"If Mayor Johnston wants to stand at the Denver border with, I believe he said, Highland moms, or something to that effect, it will just further show how unproductive he is," Jurinsky said. "Aurora does not plan to provide the Trump administration any assistance, as far as I know, but we will certainly not stand in the way of what the American people voted for."

 

Johnston move comes on the heels of other Democrat politicians seeking to circumvent Trump's agenda. Last week, Govs. J.B. Pritzker of Illinois and Jared Polis of Colorado, both Democrats, launched their Governors Safeguarding Democracy initiative, which aims to resist the president-elect's America First policies.

 

Denver has welcomed illegal immigrants, taking in close to 40,000 since December 2022, the largest figure per capita in the country.

Anonymous ID: c6a0c8 Nov. 23, 2024, 4 a.m. No.22042577   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Texas Expands Floating Border Wall in Rio Grande River

https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/texas-floating-border/2024/11/22/id/1189132/

 

Texas Republican Gov. Gregg Abbott announced Friday that the state has bolstered border security with the addition of more buoys to its floating marine barrier in the Rio Grande River and the installation of more razor wire in Eagle Pass, Texas.

 

Texas began expanding the buoy barrier on Wednesday after workers began erecting more razor wire on Tuesday. NewsNation reported Tuesday that the additional barriers were in anticipation of a surge in illegal crossings before President-elect Donald Trump returns to the White House in January. He has vowed to close the border on Day 1 and implement mass deportations of millions of migrants in the U.S. illegally.

 

It’s unclear how much longer the barrier is now, but the original installation of buoys was 1,000-feet long.

 

The additional barriers are an extension of Operation Lone Star, which Abbott implemented in 2023 to “fill the dangerous gaps created by the federal government’s refusal to secure the border” under President Joe Biden.

 

“Every individual who is apprehended or arrested and every ounce of drugs seized would have otherwise made their way into communities across Texas and the nation due to open border policies,” Abbott said in Friday’s release.

 

The installation of the floating border wall began in June 2023, part of Abbott’s multibillion-dollar effort to secure the border with Mexico, with Eagle Pass being ground zero for illegal crossings. It was met with immediate pushback from the Biden administration, which demanded Texas remove the barriers or face legal action.

 

Abbott chose the latter.

 

The Department of Justice filed a lawsuit, culminating with a panel of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling last December that Texas had to remove the floating barrier. The full Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in July ruled that the barrier could remain while a lower court hears a case on merits.

 

Abbott on Friday extoled the merits of Operation Lone Star, citing 48,700 criminal arrests, more than 41,900 felony charges and the seizure of more than 553 million lethal doses of fentanyl, “enough to kill every man, woman, and child in the United States and Mexico combined," he said.

 

Abbott said the mission has also decreased illegal crossings into Texas by 86%.

 

“Fewer illegal crossings into Texas means fewer migrants to transport to sanctuary cities,” he wrote.

 

Abbott said Texas has shipped more than 119,000 illegal migrants to six different sanctuary cities since April 2022, including 45,900 to New York City alone.