How Trump Reverses the Destruction Biden’s Pro-Illegal Immigration Ideologues Wrought; Trump Leaves Immigration Policy in the Hands of Three Anti-Immigration Hawks: Miller, Homan and Noem
How Trump Reverses the Destruction Biden’s Pro-Illegal Immigration Ideologues Wrought: The BorderLine
President-elect Donald Trump is now picking his Cabinet and appointing key executive officers. Nowhere will these picks be more important than in keeping his promise to the American people to secure the border and reestablish the rule of law in immigration matters.
Many Americans have heard of Alexander the Great, the Macedonian warrior-king who conquered the ancient world before dying at only 32.
But few have heard of his generals, without whom he would never have succeeded. Ptolemy founded the Egyptian dynasty that ended with the famous Cleopatra, baby-momma to Julius Caesar. Seleucus founded the city of Seleucia and his very own dynasty. Like Alexander, successful American presidents need excellent and committed “generals” to fulfill their visions.
A United States president gets to pick a few thousand appointees to carry out the policies on which he was elected. For the early presidents, exerting control over the federal government was easy. With under 6,000 employees in the 1800s, even the head of the staunchly small government organization Americans for Tax Reform, Grover Norquist, would have been satisfied with the relatively small size of the federal government.
But starting with the Civil War, through two World Wars, a Great Depression, the New Deal, and the Great Society of the 1960s, the federal government has grown massively in personnel, scope, and power. There are now over 2 million civilians in the federal government, and 82,000 were added last year alone.
At the same time, the executive branch of the federal government has grown less maneuverable by, and accountable to, the president. That makes the political picks even more vital.
One thing Trump will need is a string of competent ambassadors stretching from Mexico through South America, along the route illegal immigrants from all over the world now take to get into the United States.
The U.S. ambassador to Mexico will be the most important of these. He or she will need to convince a reluctant, leftist Mexican government that it is in its best interest to prevent illegal migration flowing from Mexico’s southern borders to ours.
One powerful tool our new envoy can use is the 2026 review and renewal of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade agreement. Cooperation among our nations to prevent mass illegal migration must be a top U.S. goal in these discussions.
Trump will also need ambassadors, especially in Central and South America, who can convince both our friends and our adversaries to take back their nationals who will have been ordered deported from the U.S. Every lever must be used to get countries to do what the U.S. does—accept the return of all their citizens, on demand, with no conditions.
To direct his enforcement agenda, Trump has named Tom Homan (who is also a Heritage Foundation visiting fellow) as his “border czar.” Homan has the right background and commitment to manage the effort.
Starting as a Border Patrol agent and ending as acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, no one knows more than Homan about the problems—and solutions—to the chaos President Joe Biden unleashed on the southern border. He is respected, from the incoming president down to the field agents, as a man who gets things done. —>READ MORE HERE
Trump leaves immigration policy in the hands of three anti-immigration hawks: Miller, Homan and Noem:
The future White House deputy chief of staff, ‘border czar’ and secretary of Homeland Security will seek to fulfill the president’s promises, including the mass deportation of millions of people
Donald Trump is returning to the White House with a long list of promises to fulfill on immigration: carrying out the largest deportation in history, ending the DACA and parole programs, closing the southern border with Mexico… And it seems that he has every intention of carrying them out. To do so, he has named a trifecta of faithful anti-immigration hawks to three key positions: Stephen Miller as White House deputy chief of staff; Tom Homan, as “border czar”; and Kristi Noem, as secretary of Homeland Security. Together, they will be in charge of making his most radical immigration policies a reality.
Here’s what each of them could bring to the next Trump administration, in line with what they have indicated both in the months leading up to the Republican’s victory and in interviews following their appointments, along with the role they played during his first term.
Stephen Miller: The Mastermind Behind Trump’s Immigration Policies
The next White House deputy chief of staff for policy will be charged with overseeing Trump’s administration policies, especially when it comes to immigration. He will play an architect’s role, ensuring that the president-elect’s policies are not only feasible but also that they endure despite the numerous legal challenges and lawsuits that will arise against them. It will be a role similar to the one he played during the Republican’s first term, when he was the public face of Trump’s most radical immigration plans, such as the separation of thousands of families at the border in 2018.
His appointment does not require Senate confirmation, so he can get to work immediately. In fact, he is already doing so: he has participated in the first planning meetings for Trump’s transition since his election victory. And even before the Republican secured his return to the presidency, Miller was part of his closest team during the campaign as an advisor and even a speechwriter.
Although Trump did not specify during his campaign how he would fulfill his promise to carry out the largest deportation in U.S. history, Miller has been working on detailed plans for doing so for years. In an interview with The New York Times last year, he outlined this and other immigration policies by the Republican. For the large-scale deportation of millions of illegal immigrants, he said that massive raids would be carried out in workplaces and public spaces with the goal of arresting the largest number of people at once. Such an operation would involve the participation of all federal and state law enforcement agencies, including the National Guard and local police officers. Once detained, Miller continued, the immigrants will be held in “vast facilities” that will function as “stalling centers” for the immigrants while their cases progress and they wait to be transferred to other countries. —>READ MORE HERE
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