Washington, DC — Yesterday, at the Border Security Expo in Arizona, White House border czar Tom Homan pledged that mass deportations would escalate next year. As NPR reports, Homan said:
“If you think last year’s historic number is good, wait till next year and we have 10,000 more agents on the border. You ain’t seen s*** yet … This year will be a good year. Mass deportations are coming … For the people out there saying President Trump’s weak on mass deportation, what the hell are you talking about? President Trump made a promise to the American people that’s going to happen.”
Meanwhile, deep-dive investigative journalism pieces from Reuters and ProPublica highlight the costs on public safety and children’s health of the mass deportation agenda in action.
According to Joanna Kuebler, Chief of Programs at America’s Voice:
“As the White House and Congressional Republicans gear up to hand Stephen Miller a blank check for an unwanted, unpopular, and unfettered mass deportation scheme, the administration is openly pledging to escalate the violence and harm it has inflicted on Americans from coast-to-coast. . The GOP priorities are clear – fund more lawlessness, violence, and attacks on our rights at the hands of out-of-control ICE and border patrol. Showing no shame, now they want to throw a billion dollar ballroom to enhance the package. They are wildly out of sync with the American people.”
- In “How Trump’s Minneapolis immigration blitz hobbled federal crime fighting,” Reuters describes how the all-consuming mass deportation blitz in Minneapolis earlier this year has diverted resources and focus away from public safety threats: [the Minneapolis focus on immigration] “dramatically slowed other federal investigations and prosecutions into an array of serious crimes, a Reuters review of federal court records found … the change in Minnesota since the immigration crackdown has been so abrupt that it could have a lasting impact on traditional crime fighting, law enforcement officials there told Reuters.”
- In ProPublica’s, “Trump’s Deportation Campaign Has Harmed Scores of Kids With Tear Gas, Pepper Spray,” the outlet highlights, “Tear gas and pepper spray were designed to inflict intense pain on combatants and rioters — created to incapacitate grown men. Yet during President Donald Trump’s historic immigration crackdown, at least 79 children have been left screaming, unable to breathe or hurt by these weapons.”
