<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/immigration-and-customs-enforcement-ice" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Immigration and Customs Enforcement</a> (ICE) will change their terminology to resume the use of the term “alien” and drop the term “noncitizen,” a new memo indicates.
The <a href="https://www.axios.com/2025/01/22/trump-dhs-ice-immigration-noncitizen-alien">memo</a> from ICE director Caleb Vitello will apply to all &#8220;internal and external communications” and will also replace the term “noncitizenship” with “alienage.”
The move marks a stark departure from the Biden administration’s decision to use “<a href="https://www.axios.com/2021/02/16/biden-immigrant-terms-noncitizen-alien">more inclusive</a>” terms when discussing immigration. Even the word “assimilation” was dropped in favor of “civic integration.”
The Biden administration also <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/federal-contractor-urges-dhs-to-ditch-term-illegal-immigrant-says-jihadist-is-racially-charged">received guidance</a> from the Rand Corporation urging it to discontinue the use of not just the term “illegal alien,” but even words like “Jihadist,” which it warned was “racially charged.” “Looter,” “rioter,” and “trespasser” were all said by the Rand Corporation to be “racially charged as they are mostly applied to individuals of a particular race and not to White individuals.”
The report to the Biden administration adds “it is the disparate application of the term, rather than the definition, that has caused it to become disrespectful or damaging.”
The new ICE memo also underscores President Trump&#8217;s focus on immigration in the first days of his administration. Trump signed a slate of immigration related executive orders the day of his inauguration, including measures to declare a national emergency at the southern border, end birthright citizenship for the children of illegal aliens, suspending refugee resettlement, and designating cartels foreign terrorist organizations.
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Republican Study Committee Chairman August Pfluger (R-TX) celebrated the flurry of executive orders addressing immigration, telling The Daily Wire that “Biden surrendered our border to chaos – but President Trump is wasting no time taking it back.”
“These executive orders are exactly what the American people demanded when they voted for law and order: military deployment to the border, designating cartels as terrorists, and ending the Democrats’ catch-and-release scam,” he added. “The Republican Study Committee will work tirelessly alongside President Trump to seal our border, defend our communities, and make America safe again. This is what real leadership looks like: promises made, promises kept to the American people.”

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ICE To Resume Use Of Term ‘Alien’ And Drop ‘Noncitizen’ For Foreign Nationals

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Illegal Immigration

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Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)

U.S.

The Trump administration on Tuesday said that schools were no longer off-limits for immigration enforcement agents, withdrawing a Biden administration guideline on &#8220;sensitive&#8221; areas.
&#8220;Criminals will no longer be able to hide in America’s schools and churches to avoid arrest,&#8221; Acting Department of Homeland Security Secretary Benjamine Huffman <a href="https://www.dhs.gov/news/2025/01/21/statement-dhs-spokesperson-directives-expanding-law-enforcement-and-ending-abuse" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a Tuesday statement.
&#8220;This action empowers the brave men and women in CBP and ICE to enforce our immigration laws and catch criminal aliens—including murderers and rapists—who have illegally come into our country,&#8221; the statement continued. &#8220;The Trump Administration will not tie the hands of our brave law enforcement, and instead trusts them to use common sense.&#8221;
School systems immediately pledged to make ICE&#8217;s job as hard as possible, and an Obama-linked progressive group urged them to do so because the more illegal immigrants a school has, the more taxpayer money it gets.
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The Century Foundation, a progressive nonprofit that school systems lean on for policy advice, <a href="https://x.com/TCFdotorg/status/1881808608624890333" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> that principals should meet federal law enforcement at the door and tell them that &#8220;district protocols&#8221; prohibited them from entering before the principal called the district’s lawyer. Then, the principal should call the child’s parents. Denver, whose enrollment has risen thanks to immigrant children after several years of <a href="https://www.chalkbeat.org/colorado/2024/10/08/denver-public-schools-enrollment-is-up-for-second-year-immigrant-students/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">declining enrollment</a>, was one of several districts that said they would <a href="https://www.9news.com/article/news/local/colorado-schools-immigration-agents-plan/73-10a00d72-1f42-488c-b861-a4ccd3d547d0">follow</a> a similar procedure.
“The task is simple. Keep students in school, maintain enrollment and funding,” Century said in a social media thread drawing from a <a href="https://tcf.org/content/commentary/how-school-districts-can-take-action-to-protect-their-immigrant-students/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">blog post</a> it published in December.
The essay is a remarkable admission of how school systems and teachers&#8217; unions often approach education — not as a service they provide, but as a jobs program where left-wing policies can help justify otherwise irrational funding.
Century said “financial logic” dictated that those who draw paychecks from public school systems should attempt to stop deportations:
<blockquote>Immigrant students have helped to keep public school district budgets from shrinking due to declining enrollment. Public schools in the United States lost more than 1 million students between 2019 and 2022. New York City schools have lost over 100,000 students in the past few years, and Chicago Public Schools saw eight years of enrollment dips before picking up slightly in 2023. These enrollment losses can lead to significant layoffs, school mergers, or closures. However, in both districts, English learner enrollment has grown significantly, making up for some losses and bringing enrollment-dependent funds back to public schools. Even former New York City Schools Chancellor Banks called the arrival of migrant students a “godsend” for public school budgets. Further financial hits to districts will occur if immigrant students stay home because they are afraid to come to school.</blockquote>
Parents pulled their children from public schools after teachers alienated many of them by refusing to work during COVID and injecting divisive political views into the curriculum. Fewer students in school means a school has fewer costs, and therefore doesn’t need to employ as many members of a teachers&#8217; union.
But illegal immigrants can’t afford private school — and the government pays vastly more for “English language learners” than it does for Americans. As a result, New York and other localities didn&#8217;t lower taxes, despite the massive exodus from their schools. That&#8217;s because what amounts to “financial logic” for school systems comes at a massive cost to taxpayers.
In Montgomery County, Maryland, taxpayers spent $14,000 per student for Americans, and $22,000 per student for those the district said needed extra staffing because of lack of English proficiency. Fairfax County Public Schools in Virginia spent <a href="https://www.fairus.org/blog/2024/06/03/fairfax-county-virginia-public-schools-limited-english-proficiency-and-opportunity" target="_blank" rel="noopener">$142 million</a> on English as a Second Language in 2024, and the county now faces a $300 million budget shortfall that could force cuts to basic services. The ESL costs were up from $94 million in 2019. Educators claim that students still don&#8217;t know English after years, leaving them in the more lucrative status, even though children can learn languages quickly.
Century is a nonprofit helmed by Mark Zuckerman, deputy director of the Domestic Policy Council under President Barack Obama. The post was written by Alejandra Vazquez Baur, a “fellow at The Century Foundation, where she manages the Bridges Collaborative and directs the National Newcomer Network,” and Claire E. Sylvan, “the founder and senior strategic advisor for Internationals Network for Public Schools” and “member of TCF’s National Newcomer Network leadership team.”
Bridges Collaborative pushes for race-based social engineering of public schools, mirroring 1970s forced-bussing policies. As the book <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Race-Bottom-Uncovering-Destroying-Education/dp/0063056720/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Race to the Bottom</a> reported, it claimed that minorities cannot learn unless taxpayers spend, in some cases, more than a typical household&#8217;s entire income on the education bureaucracy, and that to achieve “equity,” whites should have funding taken away from them so their test scores will be lower to make them more equal to minorities.
In a “study” that induced the Washington Post to write that “school districts with large numbers of black and Hispanic students need more money to help students succeed but get less,” Century said that, for example, Wagon Mound Public Schools in New Mexico underfunded its schools by $20,184 per pupil. In reality, the district spent $35,182 per student, but since there are many Hispanics there, Century thought they required $55,366 per student in order to learn.
At the same time, it said Los Alamos Public Schools spent too much — at $10,804. Students were the children of brilliant scientists at the national laboratory, but Century wanted its funding cut to $8,000 — seemingly to sabotage them to bring their results down closer to the Hispanics across the state.
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2024 Republican National Convention: Day 3

Schools Aren’t Off-Limits For ICE Raids, Trump DHS Says

Education

President-elect Donald Trump’s Border Czar <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/tom-homan" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tom Homan</a> indicated that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) may be adjusting their plans after a widely reported leak detailed the agency’s intention to begin a mass deportation operation in Chicago.
Homan, the former Acting Director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, addressed a widely reported leak <a href="https://apnews.com/article/chicago-ice-raids-trump-immigrant-community-b3b276656067b5302bed7dfcaf950f57">indicating</a> that the Trump administration would launch a deportation operation in Chicago in an effort to capture over 300 illegal aliens with violent criminal records.
“We&#8217;re looking at this leak and will make a decision based on this leak,” Homan <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14301193/donald-trump-immigration-border-tom-homan-deportations-chicago.html">explained</a>. “It&#8217;s unfortunate because anyone leaking law enforcement operations puts officers at great risk.” Homan also <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/01/18/chicago-immigration-raids/">told</a> The Washington Post that the new administration “hasn’t made a decision yet” on the potential immigration raids in Chicago.
The plans were leaked just days after the Chicago City Council <a href="https://www.wbez.org/city-hall/2025/01/15/chicago-police-will-not-help-with-deportations-after-the-city-council-rejects-changes-to-sanctuary-status">shot down</a> a measure that would’ve allowed the city’s police to cooperate with federal immigration enforcement agents working to deport illegal aliens arrested for a sex crime involving a minor, “drug-related activities,” “gang-related activities,” or “prostitution-related activities.”
In an interview with Fox News’ Jesse Watters, Homan <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tom-homan-on-ice-raids-theres-going-to-be-a-big-raid-all-across-the-country">emphasized</a> that the deportation operations would occur throughout the country, not just in the city of Chicago. “There’s going to be a big raid all across the country,” Homan said.
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“Chicago is just one of many places,” he added. “On Tuesday, ICE is finally going to go out and do their job. We’re going to take the handcuffs off ICE and let them go arrest criminal aliens. That’s what’s going to happen.”
He also added that under Biden, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas “told ICE you can’t arrest an illegal alien if he’s just here illegally,” instead only allowing them to arrest illegal aliens who have been “convicted of a serious crime or be a national security threat. He told immigration officers not to enforce immigration law.”

Tom Homan

Trump Border Czar Addresses Chicago Deportation Plan, Says ICE May Pivot After Leak

Deportations

President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Biden&#8217;s</a> acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) slammed him during an interview on Thursday over his disastrous handling of the U.S. southern border.
Acting ICE Director P.J. Lechleitner was asked by NBC News if Biden &#8220;should have taken that action earlier&#8221; to secure the southern border to stop millions of illegal aliens from entering the country.
&#8220;Yes, yes, absolutely yes, he should have,&#8221; said Lechleitner. &#8220;The administration should have taken that action earlier, and I think the career people in DHS would have liked that.&#8221;
&#8220;All of us at DHS—I don&#8217;t know of anybody that wouldn&#8217;t have wanted that earlier,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;Law enforcement is always going to be on that side, where we want tighter controls, because for a while, you remember, it was 10,000+.&#8221;
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ICE Director Patrick Lechleitner blasts Biden for delaying action on the border:
&#8220;Yes, yes, absolutely yes, he should have. The administration should have taken that action earlier, and I think the career people in DHS would have liked that.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/T1Q7C45OGE">pic.twitter.com/T1Q7C45OGE</a>
— Bobby LaValley (@Bobby_LaVallley) <a href="https://twitter.com/Bobby_LaVallley/status/1877366730231566454?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 9, 2025</a></blockquote>
Lechleitner was also asked about Biden not mentioning the border this week when he was asked during an interview if he had any regrets about actions he took as president.
&#8220;Does that surprise you?&#8221; asked NBC News&#8217; Julia Ainsley.
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&#8220;No, but it is unfortunate because I think we could have done more,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We could have added more resources to it, with CBP and ICE, and we could have tried to get more of these individuals who are in the non-detained docket and moved more people. I think we could have used more resources and support. We could have done that the last four years.&#8221;
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&#8220;Biden had an exit interview this week where he was asked about his regrets and he did not mention the border. Does that surprise you?&#8221;
ICE Director Patrick Lechleitner: &#8220;No, it doesn&#8217;t surprise me, but it&#8217;s unfortunate because I think we could have done more.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/twOz4tQQBS">pic.twitter.com/twOz4tQQBS</a>
— Bobby LaValley (@Bobby_LaVallley) <a href="https://twitter.com/Bobby_LaVallley/status/1877353147921813855?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 9, 2025</a></blockquote>

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Biden’s Acting ICE Director Torches Him During Final Days In Office

Border Crisis

Joe Biden

Politics

The Biden administration is reaching a settlement in a lawsuit that will allow an Immigrant and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention site to reopen, potentially opening the door to President-elect Donald Trump’s mass deportation agenda.
The <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/12/24/us-news/biden-admin-settles-lawsuit-to-reopen-mass-ice-detention-site-rolling-the-red-carpet-out-for-trump-liberals-gripe/">lawsuit settlement</a>, which must be signed by a judge before it becomes official, would allow an ICE facility in Adelanto, California, that has remained almost entirely empty since 2020, to reopen. The facility has room for just under 2,000 people, but currently only houses three detainees. It&#8217;s also &#8220;the largest private migrant detention center in the US,&#8221; according to the New York Post.
The center has been effectively closed since 2020, when a <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/11/23/news/ice-facility-operating-at-4-capacity-due-to-outdated-covid-19-order-rep/">judge gave an order</a> blocking the center from taking in more detainees amid concerns about the spread of Covid.
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The move has been criticized by left-wing immigration lawyers, who say that the settlement will bolster Trump’s attempt to carry out his mass deportation agenda. “What can I say, Biden Admin and DOJ are rolling the red carpet for Trump’s deportation machine,” immigration lawyer Nicolette Glazer <a href="https://x.com/NicoletteGlazer/status/1871397590660501855">wrote</a> in a post on X. “Now that is a way to mess with Christmas Eve Eve! Biden’s legacy against people!” Hardeep Sull, the director of the American Immigration Lawyer’s Association, <a href="https://x.com/DeeSull2/status/1871555928056840250">chimed in</a> on X.
The legal settlement comes as Trump has touted his plan to carry out the largest mass deportation plan in American history, selecting former Acting Director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trumps-border-czar-has-a-plan-to-stop-illegal-immigration">Tom Homan</a> as his border czar.
Republican Congressman Jay Obernotle, whose California district includes the ICE detention center, <a href="https://obernolte.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/obernolte.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/23-10-03-obernolte-adelanto-ice-letter-final_sent.pdf">called</a> for the center to be reopened in 2023, citing concerns over the release of illegal aliens into American communities.
“At a time when our communities are suffering historic levels of illegal migrants overrunning our law enforcement authorities to the point that they have been forced to use additional taxpayer resources to hold them in hotels, prisons, and other detention housing alternatives, it is unacceptable that Adelanto facility … has been so underutilized and neglected,” he wrote.

ICE papers

Biden Admin Settles Lawsuit Allowing Illegal Alien Detention Site To Reopen

Border

An illegal alien and suspected terrorist from South Africa was arrested in New York City after being released at the border by federal authorities.
Umar Farooq Ashraf, 18 years old, <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/12/20/us-news/illegal-migrant-terror-suspect-nabbed-in-nyc-after-he-was-released-at-border-sources/">was arrested</a> at a Brooklyn apartment three months after he was released into the country by federal agents when he illegally entered the United States by way of the southern border.
Ashraf was first apprehended in September by the Texas Department of Public Safety in Normandy when the state agency found that the South African national was a “spouse or child of a known or suspected terrorist” according to the Terrorist Screening Center. It is not apparent which terror organization the man is believed to have a connection to.
The Texas Department of Public Safety proceeded to hand Ashraf over to federal authorities, who later released the foreign national into the country despite his terror ties. The man then had to be captured by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in a multi-agency effort.
“A further subsequent investigation revealed a positive match on the terrorist watchlist, prompting swift action by USBP agents and personnel at the National Targeting Center,” Border Patrol Chief Jason Owens explained in a statement.
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One individual with the Department of Homeland Security <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/12/20/us-news/illegal-migrant-terror-suspect-nabbed-in-nyc-after-he-was-released-at-border-sources/">reportedly</a> said that the release of Ashraf was the result of a “major lapse in intelligence,” adding that he is a “real deal” terrorist “without a doubt.”
The arrest of Ashraf comes on the heels of another bust of illegal aliens in the Bronx. Federal agents and officers at the New York Police Department <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/federal-agents-nypd-bust-tren-de-aragua-gang-house-arrest-seven">carried out a raid</a> near the Bronx’s Crotona Park neighborhood earlier this month, resulting in the arrest of seven illegal aliens believed to be members of the violent Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua.
The authorities found the residence after monitoring one man who had been previously arrested and was wearing an ankle monitor.
The series of arrests come as President-elect Donald Trump has pledged to carry out the largest mass deportation effort in American history, selecting former Acting Director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trumps-border-czar-has-a-plan-to-stop-illegal-immigration">Tom Homan</a> as his border czar.

Illegal Alien Terror Suspect Arrested In NYC After Being Released Into Country

On Tuesday, the San Diego County Board of Supervisors voted 3-1 for a policy that would turn the jurisdiction into a “super sanctuary” county, thereby preventing its sheriff&#8217;s department from notifying ICE about illegal immigrants who had committed violent crimes.
The policy goes beyond California state law and will <a href="https://apnews.com/article/san-diego-county-trump-deportation-sanctuary-ee8603c35d2ee6700d1eda22139bcf88">require</a> a judge&#8217;s order for ICE to receive assistance from the county to transfer illegal immigrants convicted of violent crimes to immigration authorities.
San Diego County Sheriff Kelly A. Martinez <a href="https://www.sdsheriff.gov/Home/Components/News/News/3102/16">immediately responded</a>, issuing a statement that said: “The Sheriff&#8217;s Office will not change its practices based on the Board resolution and policy that was passed at today&#8217;s meeting. The Board of Supervisors does not set policy for the Sheriff&#8217;s Office. The Sheriff, as an independently elected official, sets the policy for the Sheriff&#8217;s Office. California law prohibits the Board of Supervisors from interfering with the independent, constitutionally and statutorily designated investigative functions of the Sheriff, and is clear that the Sheriff has the sole and exclusive authority to operate the county jails.”
“I think this policy goes beyond California’s existing sanctuary laws by adding an additional layer of bureaucracy that hinders local law enforcement from directly notifying ICE about illegal immigrants who are currently in our jails,” Supervisor Jim Desmond, the lone dissenting vote, declared. “And they have committed heinous crimes, including child abuse or endangerment, driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs, but only if this conviction is for a felony, possession of an unlawful deadly weapon, gang-related offenses, a crime resulting in death or involving personal affliction or great bodily injury, possession or use of a firearm in the commission of an offense, torture, rape, and kidnapping. That’s the population we’re talking about.”
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He pointed out that if an illegal immigrant committed one of those crimes, “San Diego County would be legally prohibited from directly coordinating with ICE &#8230; effectively protecting these offenders from deportation.”
“Today’s outrageous decision to turn San Diego County into a ‘Super’ Sanctuary County is an affront to every law-abiding citizen who values safety and justice,” Desmond <a href="https://x.com/jim_desmond/status/1866611711022862592">wrote</a> on X. “The Board of Supervisors’ 3-1 vote to embrace this radical policy is a direct betrayal of the people we are sworn to protect. This reckless measure not only goes far beyond California&#8217;s already extreme Sanctuary State laws but actively endangers our communities by shielding illegal immigrant criminals from deportation.”
“I have already been in contact with the incoming Administration and will fight relentlessly to undo this disastrous policy and ensure that illegal immigrant criminals are removed from our neighborhoods,” he concluded.
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The Biden-Harris administration’s Department of Homeland Security freed an illegal alien who was wanted of child rape in his home country into the United States.
The illegal alien, a 25-year-old Ecuadorean national named Adrian Patricio Huerta-Nivelo, crossed the border into the United States on June 4th, 2021 before being <a href="https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/ero-boston-removes-international-fugitive-wanted-questioning-ecuadoran-child-rape">apprehended</a> by Border Patrol.
Huerta-Nivelo was given a notice to appear in front of an immigration judge before being released into the interior of the United States. Just days after his release, however, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) discovered that the illegal alien was wanted in Ecuador in connection to the rape of a child.
ICE arrested Huerta-Nivelo days after he was released into the United States on June 12th, 2021 in Boston, Massachusetts. The federal law enforcement agency held the illegal alien in their custody until an immigration judge ordered him to be deported from the country. He was then returned to Ecuador and handed over to law enforcement agents in his home country.
Though Huerta-Nivelo is not believed to have committed any violent crimes during his brief time in the United States, numerous other illegal aliens have committed violent crimes after illegally crossing the border.
One illegal alien, 20-year-old Venezuelan national, <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/11/21/us-news/venezuelan-migrant-charged-with-raping-bosss-teen-daughter/">Jesus Alberto Pereira Castillo</a>, was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/illegal-alien-charged-with-raping-14-year-old-girl-in-denver-as-mayor-opposes-deportation-effort">arrested</a> in Denver, Colorado for allegedly raping a 14-year-old girl. The arrest came as the city’s Democrat mayor, Mike Johnston, indicated that he would resist attempts from the Trump administration to enforce federal immigration law in Denver.
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Massachusett’s Democrat Governor similarly said that she would <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dem-gov-refuses-to-help-deportations-as-ice-busts-alleged-illegal-alien-child-rapists-in-her-state">refuse</a> to assist federal immigration enforcement operations, even as ICE operations in the state resulted in the capture of three illegal aliens, each of which had been charged or convicted with raping children. One of those illegal aliens, Alexandre Romao De Oliveira, entered the United States in 2022 and had previously been convicted in Brazil of raping a child.
President-elect Donald Trump has pledged to carry out the “largest mass deportation operation” in American history, with recent polling indicating that a majority of Americans are <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/americans-strongly-supportive-of-trumps-mass-deportation-agenda-poll-finds">in favor</a> of the plan.

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President-elect <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a> announced Thursday evening two new picks to help carry out his planned crackdown on illegal immigration and secure the border. 
Trump said Rodney Scott would be the Customs and Border Protection commissioner, and Caleb Vitello would be the acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement. He previously announced that former acting ICE Director Tom Homan would be his &#8220;border czar&#8221; and oversee mass deportation operations. 
Scott, who has almost three decades of experience with Border Patrol, would be back in the same position he held during Trump’s first term. Under Trump, Scott implemented policies like Remain-in-Mexico, where asylum seekers would have to stop in the first available country, and Title 42, a measure to turn back illegal immigrants due to concerns about COVID. 
“As the Chief, he led over 22,000 personnel, and was responsible for securing the International Borders of the U.S. between the official ports of entry,” Trump posted. “After retiring, Rodney has continued to educate politicians and the public about the importance of meaningful Border Security.”
Scott left the position during the Biden administration and later endorsed Trump’s 2024 re-election campaign. 
“President Trump respected the experience of career border security professionals and listened to our advice,” Scott <a href="https://www.bpchiefscott.com/speaking-the-truth-with-facts-and-evidence" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a> in an October letter. “When border security experts explained to President Trump how illegal immigration empowers the cartels to control who and what enters our home, he listened and acted.”
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In a separate post on Truth Social, Trump said that Vitello would serve as the acting director of ICE. As ICE&#8217;s assistant director of the Office of Firearms and Tactical Programs, Vitello currently assists with training, equipment, safety, and policy. Previously, he was the chief of staff for ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations, supervising all daily operations and communications. 
“Caleb’s exceptional leadership, extensive experience, and commitment to ICE’s mission make him an excellent choice to implement my efforts to enhance the safety and security of American communities who have been victimized by illegal alien crime,” Trump posted 
Trump has vowed to secure the border and enact the largest deportation operation in American history, starting with those illegal immigrants with violent criminal histories who have entered the country unlawfully.

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We&#8217;ve heard a lot from Tom Homan lately, and for good reason. He&#8217;s the incoming border czar for the second Trump administration. And he&#8217;s vowed, unapologetically, to deport as many illegal aliens as possible — and to arrest any local officials who try to intervene.
We talked about that promise yesterday, in the context of the mayor of Denver, who&#8217;s suggesting that he will defy federal immigration authorities who try to carry out deportations in the second Trump term. Homan&#8217;s response was the correct one — if the mayor of Denver wants to go to jail, then ICE will happily oblige.
This kind of showdown between Tom Homan and local officials has been brewing for a very long time. During the first Trump administration, when Homan served briefly as the acting director of ICE, several local governments announced that they would undermine the work of federal immigration officials. And maybe no single local official was more brazen about her efforts than Libby Schaaf, who at the time was the mayor of Oakland, California.
This is an incident that&#8217;s mostly been forgotten. But it&#8217;s one of the most extraordinary moments in modern American politics. And it&#8217;s crucial to understanding Tom Homan&#8217;s origin story as a hardliner in dealing with states that interfere with federal immigration enforcement. It also provides insight into how he&#8217;s likely to direct immigration enforcement in Trump&#8217;s second term.
Here&#8217;s how the showdown began. As mayor of Oakland, Schaaf somehow got wind of an upcoming ICE raid in the Bay Area. And then she did everything in her power to sabotage the raid in order to protect as many illegal aliens as she could. First she went on social media to announce that the raid was coming. Then she held a press conference to explain that it was her &#8220;duty&#8221; to compromise an ongoing federal law enforcement operation. Watch:
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What Schaaf was basically doing there was serving as a gang lookout. She heard that the police were coming, so she told everyone to hide, with the clear and explicit goal of obstructing law enforcement. And it worked. Following Schaaf&#8217;s early warning, more than 800 illegal aliens with criminal records managed to evade ICE&#8217;s crackdown in the Bay Area.
As Tom Homan <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/28/us/oakland-mayor-libby-schaaf-ice-arrests/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">put it</a> at the time:
<blockquote>The Oakland mayor’s decision to publicize her suspicions about ICE operations further increased that risk for my officers and alerted criminal aliens – making clear that this reckless decision was based on her political agenda.</blockquote>
To be clear, every single person that ICE was looking for was guilty of multiple crimes. They were people who had no right to be in this country, for one thing. And they also committed additional crimes when they were here. Among the 150 aliens that were arrested by ICE during that crackdown, for example, was a gang member who had four prior deportations, along with convictions for sex with a minor, DUI, and assault. He apparently wasn&#8217;t paying attention to the news that day, so Tom Homan&#8217;s agents were able to find him.
After the raid, Donald Trump told reporters that he would direct the DOJ to investigate Libby Schaaf for obstructing federal agents. He told his attorney general, Jeff Sessions, to look into it. Watch:
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As we all know, in the end, nothing came out of this. Jeff Sessions and everyone else in the room nodded along as Trump made this suggestion, and then they promptly forgot all about it. Instead of prosecuting Schaaf for interfering with the enforcement of federal law, the DOJ got to work investigating Donald Trump for things he didn&#8217;t even do. They were more interested in fake allegations of collusion with Russia, than investigating actual, videotaped evidence that the mayor of Oakland was colluding with felons to obstruct federal investigations.
At the time, the idea of hauling an elected official to a courtroom seemed like a red line to a lot of conservatives. Even when an elected official was clearly and deliberately violating the law, as was the case with Libby Schaaf, very few people in power had the political will to punish her for it. They didn&#8217;t want to go on camera and call for her arrest. After all, Republicans thought, if we start arresting our political opponents — even ones who actually have committed serious crimes — then Democrats might try to arrest us. Of course as it turns out, Democrats didn’t need permission from Republicans. They were going to escalate to this level regardless. Republicans played it safe for fear of the Democrat escalation. But Democrats escalated anyway. It’s a tale as old as time. 
But Tom Homan was the notable exception. All the way back in early 2018 — even before the mayor of Oakland publicly undermined ICE — Homan <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/367167-trump-ice-pick-politicians-who-run-sanctuary-cities-should-be-charged/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> that the leader of every sanctuary city in the country should go to jail. But Homan was apparently out-voted, so that never happened. Schaaf was never investigated, much less prosecuted.
Of course, over the past few years, a lot&#8217;s changed. Democrats have decided that there&#8217;s no problem with prosecuting their political opponents for crimes that are completely fake. They have dispensed with every &#8220;norm&#8221; and &#8220;principle of jurisprudence&#8221; that counsels against these kinds of prosecutions.
So now, six years later, there&#8217;s reason to believe that Homan will have the opportunity to actually follow through on his plan to arrest officials who stand in his way. Homan certainly seems to think that&#8217;s a distinct possibility, based on his comments responding to the mayor of Denver this week. I played part of this clip yesterday. Here it is again if you missed it:
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That was Homan&#8217;s response to the mayor of Denver, Mike Johnston, threatening that there would be a &#8220;Tiananmen Square moment&#8221; if ICE tried to enforce immigration law in Denver. Johnston implied that Denver Police and tens of thousands of Denver residents would obstruct ICE, in the same way the guy stood up to the line of Chinese tanks.
So the analogy is equating the enforcement of existing immigration laws — laws that any country needs in order to be defined as a country — with a communist regime&#8217;s violent crackdown on a pro-democracy protest. He&#8217;s saying Denver residents are justified in seeing a parallel between the two events. And he&#8217;s encouraging them, along with law enforcement, to stand in the way of federal agents.
Fundamentally, what&#8217;s happening here is that the mayor of Denver is assuming that the second Trump administration will function a lot like the first one. He&#8217;s betting that Republicans will back off, rather than upset the activists and the mothers who are &#8220;waving the roses&#8221; and so on.
That&#8217;s the same approach that the local media and Democrat activists are taking in California, where a similar effort to &#8220;resist&#8221; the next Trump administration is underway. As Fox News reports, a city council in Northern California has just voted to resist federal immigration officials in Trump&#8217;s <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/california-bay-area-city-considers-ordinance-blocking-local-resources-from-supporting-trump-mass-deportations" target="_blank" rel="noopener">second term</a>:
<blockquote>The Redwood City Council in California voted 4-3 in favor of calling for staff to draft an ordinance for consideration that would restrict the city from cooperating with immigration authorities. &#8230; During discussion of his proposal on Monday, [council member Chris] Sturken argued in favor of passing an ordinance to ensure that no city resources may be utilized to cooperate with U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, unless required under law.</blockquote>
Here&#8217;s how the local CBS affiliate is selling this proposal:
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You might have noticed that, every time they try to make these emotional appeals where they try to &#8220;humanize&#8221; people who are in this country illegally, they end up sabotaging their own argument. In this case, we apparently have a woman who came to this country illegally more than a decade ago. And in that period, she&#8217;s never bothered to learn conversational English. She&#8217;s never obtained any kind of legal authorization to be here. But we&#8217;re supposed to feel sorry for her and allow her to stay in this country, because even though she broke the law, she seems like a nice person. That&#8217;s the argument they&#8217;re going with in the state of California.
And they&#8217;re not alone. 
Activists in Arizona are doing the same thing. They&#8217;re gearing up for the second Trump administration by working on their &#8220;storytelling&#8221; skills. Watch:
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So the &#8220;narrative&#8221; is that illegal aliens are &#8220;criminals,&#8221; according to the activist. And that narrative is true, because these aliens are in this country illegally. But did you know that some criminals are moms and dads, too? Did you realize that? And you can&#8217;t possibly throw moms and dads in jail. You can&#8217;t possibly make them face the consequences of their actions. That would just be unthinkable — even though it happens every day, in every state, in every country in the world.
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Then she goes on to say that one of her clients has been in Arizona for six months without filing an asylum claim. And that&#8217;s part of the problem. No one should be in this country while their asylum claim is being processed, because the overwhelming majority of asylum claims are fraudulent. These claims are often crafted with the help of NGOs and law firms, who include fake stories of political persecution to cover up the fact that these aliens are here seeking economic benefits. But once you let people into this country to file these bogus claims, as we&#8217;ve learned, it&#8217;s very hard to get rid of them. So again, this is yet another argument from the activists that ends up being self-defeating. They&#8217;re making our point for us.
These are people who have not adapted their strategy in any meaningful way in the past four years.
Rather than offering solutions, they&#8217;re trying (and failing) to appeal to our emotions. And of course, they&#8217;re also committing to engaging in even more lawfare. That&#8217;s not going to change, either.
Over in Illinois, for example, they&#8217;re vowing to take the Trump administration to court over his proposal to use &#8220;military assets&#8221; to carry out deportations. Watch:
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Trump&#8217;s proposal to use the military is a concerning sign for Democrats, though not for the reasons they&#8217;re claiming. In reality, they&#8217;re upset because it&#8217;s a clear signal that, in his second term, Donald Trump is going to use every available means at his disposal to get illegal aliens out of this country. In terms of tactics, this is an escalation from what we saw in Trump&#8217;s first term. And so, predictably, Democrats are claiming it&#8217;s somehow illegal.
What&#8217;s missing from their analysis, though, is that Trump never said he&#8217;d order troops to remove illegal aliens. He said that military &#8220;assets&#8221; could be used — which is in keeping with how every president since Bill Clinton has sent the National Guard (and active-duty members of the military) to the border to perform various support roles. Those roles have included monitoring the border and fixing equipment, for example.
Trump&#8217;s incoming homeland security adviser (and deputy chief of staff) Stephen Miller has previously said that, in Trump&#8217;s second term, the military could build temporary facilities to house illegal aliens prior to their deportation. That&#8217;s another option that would probably have no problem in the courts. 
As Ryan Burke, a professor at the U.S. Air Force Academy, recently put it: 
<blockquote>I think that [Trump&#8217;s plan] probably won&#8217;t face a whole lot of successful challenges. There&#8217;s too much ambiguity in these laws to point to something that says, hey, you absolutely cannot do this.</blockquote>
For their part, over in New Mexico, state officials are walking the line between &#8220;deportations are inhumane&#8221; and &#8220;the border needs to be secure somehow.&#8221; Here&#8217;s the state&#8217;s governor explaining that, while more border security is good, it&#8217;s wrong to separate families and use the military in any way to accomplish that goal. Watch:
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This is the middle ground that some Democrats have apparently decided on, ahead of Trump&#8217;s second term. They recognize that Americans overwhelmingly want border security. They want to see immigration law being enforced. After the last election, there&#8217;s no denying that.
But then Democrats claim that any immigration enforcement needs to respect the sanctity of the families of illegal aliens. And then they threaten to use the legal system to shut down any practical solutions.
They&#8217;re going with that approach because, for the most part, it worked during Trump&#8217;s first term.
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Politicians like the mayor of Oakland didn&#8217;t face any consequences for undermining federal immigration policy. Complaining about &#8220;family separations&#8221; — as if family separations don&#8217;t happen every day in our judicial system — was effective as well. Democrats could claim to care about immigration enforcement, while preventing immigration law from actually being enforced.
From the response of these various sanctuary cities and states to the incoming Trump administration, it&#8217;s very apparent that Democrats&#8217; tactics probably won&#8217;t be any different this time around. They think they can derail Trump&#8217;s deportation agenda with the same lazy appeals to emotion, backed up by lawfare. 
This is an act we&#8217;ve all seen before. It&#8217;s an act that Tom Homan in particular is very familiar with. He&#8217;s been very consistent, over the past eight years, about how exactly he&#8217;d deal with this particular strategy. He plans to deport anyone who&#8217;s illegally in this country, whether they&#8217;re part of a &#8220;family unit&#8221; or not. He doesn&#8217;t seem particularly keen on allowing anyone to stand in his way, either. And if there&#8217;s a reason for Democrats to drop the emotional blackmail and let Tom Homan do his job, it&#8217;s that no one has any incentive anymore to hold him back.

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President-elect Donald Trump incoming <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/tom-homan" target="_blank" rel="noopener">border czar</a> said during an interview this week that he is absolutely willing to have far-Left Denver Mayor Mike Johnston thrown in jail after Johnston said that he would obstruct federal immigration officials from carrying out deportations in the city.
Johnston <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/denver-mayor-warns-trump-of-tiananmen-square-moment-if-he-rounds-up-illegal-immigrants" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in an interview with a local publication that he would deploy the Denver Police Department &#8220;at the county line to keep them out.&#8221;
He went even further, threatening to turn the situation into a &#8220;Tiananmen Square moment.&#8221;
Homan said during an interview with Fox News&#8217; Sean Hannity that impeding Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials from removing illegal aliens was &#8220;absolutely breaking the law.&#8221;
&#8220;But, look, 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,&#8221; Homan added.
Homan&#8217;s remarks come after Johnston was asked during a separate interview with local media if he was willing to go to jail to stop deportations from happening.
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&#8220;Yeah, I&#8217;m not afraid of that,&#8221; Johnston said. &#8220;And I&#8217;m also not seeking that.&#8221;
Homan <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dont-cross-that-line-trump-border-czar-warns-mayors-against-harboring-illegal-immigrants" target="_blank" rel="noopener">noted</a> that it is federal felony under Title 8 U.S.C. § 1324 to knowingly harbor and conceal an illegal alien from immigration authorities.
&#8220;President Trump has been clear, we want to concentrate on public safety threats and national security threats,&#8221; he added. &#8220;I find it hard to believe that any [government official] would say they don’t want public safety threats removed from their neighborhoods.&#8221;
WATCH:
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Border Czar Tom Homan on Denver Mayor Johnson&#8217;s threats to block deportations:
&#8220;I&#8217;m willing to put him in jail&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/cX393ay2LM">pic.twitter.com/cX393ay2LM</a>
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) <a href="https://twitter.com/EndWokeness/status/1861249634233929797?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 26, 2024</a></blockquote>
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), who sits on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/rand-paul-denver-mayor-will-likely-be-removed-from-office-if-he-obstructs-ice" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> CBS News on Sunday that Johnston would be removed from office if he resisted federal immigration authorities.
“The mayor of Denver, if he’s going to resist federal law, which there’s a longstanding history of the supremacy of federal law, if he’s going to resist that, it will go all the way to the Supreme Court,” he said. “And I would suspect that he would be removed from office.”
“I don’t know whether or not there’d be a criminal prosecution for someone resisting federal law, but he will lose,” he continued. “And people need to realize that what he is offering is a form of insurrection, where the states resist the federal government.”
“The mayor of Denver is on the wrong side of history, and, really, I think, will face legal ramifications if he doesn’t obey the federal law,” he added.

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Sen. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/rand-paul" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rand Paul</a> (R-KY) said on Sunday that the mayor of Denver will be removed from office if he obstructs federal immigration officials from being able to carry out deportations in his city.
Paul&#8217;s comments come after far-Left mayor Mike Johnston <a href="https://denvergazette.com/news/trump-mass-deportation-denver-police-force/article_e643430c-a9c8-11ef-96d2-f7c3053aa81c.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> that he would deploy the Denver Police Department &#8220;at the county line&#8221; to keep Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents out.
Johnston said that it would turn into a &#8220;Tiananmen Square moment&#8221; and that he was &#8220;not afraid&#8221; of being arrested.
Paul, who sits on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, told CBS News that Johnston will be removed from office if he tries to obstruct ICE from operating inside Denver.
&#8220;The mayor of Denver, if he&#8217;s going to resist federal law, which there&#8217;s a longstanding history of the supremacy of federal law, if he&#8217;s going to resist that, it will go all the way to the Supreme Court,&#8221; he said. &#8220;And I would suspect that he would be removed from office.&#8221;
&#8220;I don&#8217;t know whether or not there&#8217;d be a criminal prosecution for someone resisting federal law, but he will lose,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;And people need to realize that what he is offering is a form of insurrection, where the states resist the federal government.&#8221;
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&#8220;The mayor of Denver is on the wrong side of history, and, really, I think, will face legal ramifications if he doesn&#8217;t obey the federal law,&#8221; he added.
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Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) says that the mayor of Denver will be removed from office if he resists federal law enforcement officials who are deporting illegal aliens: &#8220;It&#8217;s a form of insurrection&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/P9e4fVxVxu">pic.twitter.com/P9e4fVxVxu</a>
— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) <a href="https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/1860774341140521121?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 24, 2024</a></blockquote>

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