Trump’s New Border Czar Workplace Raids Expected
Earlier this week, President-elect Donald Trump’s choice for “Border Czar,” Thomas Homan, told Fox News that employers should expect workplace inspections to ensure that all employees have the legal right to work in this country.
Under the first Trump presidency, Homan, a former NY cop, age 62, who switched to Border Patrol when he was only 23, served as acting director of ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) from 2017 to 2018.
Prior to that, he was appointed by President Obama to serve as the executive associate director of ICE enforcement and removal ops in 2013.
Despite being a controversial figure by some for his policy of removing children from their parents, Obama still awarded him the Presidential Rank Award as a Distinguished Executive.
This took place while the Washington Post published a critical article of Homan, which stated, “Thomas Homan deports people. And he’s really good at it.”
A passionate man, whether one agrees with his border policies or not, you can get a glimpse of his personality on Youtube during several House Committee meetings. One in particular has AOC claiming that Homan cares little about children who aren’t as white as he is.
In fact, says Homan, the policies along the border are meant to save children, not harm them, and as his face turns red out of anger, he takes issue with anyone who claims he’s a racist.
Right or wrong, Trump has actually named a border czar, whereas, despite GOP claims that Harris was a border czar, Biden had never really named her as such. Her task instead was to make nice with the countries from which most of the undocumented immigrants come – Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador – to see if more American tax dollars wouldn’t help stem the tide.
At the Republican National Convention this past July, Homan called President Biden’s immigration policies “national suicide,” and said that the millions of immigrants who are here illegally should start packing.
To facilitate his mission, as it were, Homan said he plans to use the Alien and Sedition Act of 1798. (Source: The Independent.)
New Deportation Plan
In an appearance on Fox News’ Sunday Morning Futures show this past weekend, Homan said the new deportation plan would be “well-targeted,” led by ICE agents, and will be conducted in a “humane manner.”
The first group of people he plans to pursue, he said, are “the criminal threats and national security threats.”
In a nod to NY City and other so-called sanctuary cities, Homan said on Fox & Friends Monday that:
“[I]f you’re not going to help us, get the hell out of the way. If we can’t get assistance from New York City, and I may have, we may have to double the number of agents we send in New York City, because we’re going to do the job, we’re going to do the job without you or with you. But it’s much easier to arrest a bad guy, like I just said — we’re concentrating on public safety threat to human and national security threat, it’s much easier to arrest a bad guy in the jail.”
It's safer for everyone concerned, said Homan.
“Give us access to Rikers Jail that we’ve been kicked out of. Let us get the bad guy in jail. It’s safer for the alien. It’s safer for the officer. It’s safer for the community. If you release these bad guys out into the community, then we have to go find them, which puts the officer at risk. It puts the community at risk.”
The real question has yet to be addressed. Namely, under President-Elect Trump’s deportation plan, soon to be led by Tom Homan, will the average farm worker, for example, have to worry about deportation?
Same question applies to the average guy who’s been working construction in this country for years, albeit without papers giving him the legal right to work in the U.S., along with the cook at the restaurant, both of whom have lived life by the rules, never been in trouble with the law, raised responsible kids.
Do they have to worry about deportation?
Many hope not. Just get them naturalized so they never have to worry about future problems with ICE. That might be a better plan moving forward, some will say.
For employers currently employing workers without first checking their right-towork status, be forewarned, the new border czar has said in no uncertain terms this week: workplace checks are on the near horizon.