During remarks this week, #Trump said he wanted to “pay tribute” to a person he very much respected.

Trump thanked #TomHoman, who served as acting director of #ICE during Trump’s admin [Trump loved “acting” posts bc they aren’t subject to congressional confirmation] & has since been a frequent commentator on #FauxNews.

#immigration #law #ZeroTolerance #Border911 #FamilySeparation #HumanRights #BidenHarris2024
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-family-separation-policies-second-term-zero-tolerance-border911-rcna146270

Trump remains vague on pursuing family separation policies in a second term

Trump remains vague on pursuing family separation policies in a second term

NBC News

“He is some man,” #Trump said, adding: “He has been so great on television. He’s been so respectful of the job that we did….”

#TomHoman was an early proponent of the admin’s controversial “#ZeroTolerance#immigration #policy [#FamilySeparation], which resulted in ≥5,500 #families being separated at the southern #border in 2018 alone, before Trump himself signed an EO ending the practice after intense backlash from #HumanRights groups [tho the practice continued].

#law #BidenHarris2024

#TomHoman now heads #Border911, a *nonprofit* that warns of the supposed threat posed by undocumented immigrants.

On Thurs, #Trump is set to see him at a Mar-a-Lago gala hosted by #Border911. …The gathering will also include #MattWhitaker, who served as chief of staff at the #DOJ when it implemented #ZeroTolerance. Later, when Whitaker testified before Congress as *acting AG, he conceded there was NO PLAN to REUNITE FAMILIES.

#immigration #law #FamilySeparation #HumanRights #BidenHarris2024

#Trump’s open-armed association w/the group — & his intensifying focus on migrants & crime on the campaign trail — provide one of the clearest windows yet into a potential 2nd term & the hard-liners he might appoint to #DHS to enforce #immigration #law.

In campaign rallies & interviews w/ #Newsmax & #FauxNews, Trump has said he’d put #TomHoman & others back into a potential 2nd admin “to have great border security.”

#ZeroTolerance #Border911 #FamilySeparation #HumanRights #BidenHarris2024

…Another expected attendee Thurs night is #RodneyScott, who served as #BorderPatrol chief during Trump’s last yr in office & has defended #ZeroTolerance by arguing that it was effective in slowing down migration.…Scott explored the idea of placing buoys in the #RioGrande to deter migrants years before #Texas actually did it.

#immigration #law #Border911 #FamilySeparation #HumanRights #BidenHarris2024

#Trump has laid out an aggressive #immigration platform for a 2nd term: mass #deportations; restoring ALL #border policies of his 1st term; deploying #military, incl’g the #US #Navy, to impose a full naval embargo on drug cartels; ordering the #DOD to use #SpecialForces, cyberwarfare & other actions to dismantle cartel leadership & infrastructure; designating major drug cartels as foreign #terrorist orgs; & asking #Congress for the #DeathPenalty for #DrugSmugglers & #DrugTraffickers.

#law

His campaign has also said #Trump would sign an EO on his 1st day “to stop federal agencies from granting automatic US #citizenship to #children of illegal aliens” & to stop “birth tourism.” He’d also prioritize blocking federal #grants to “#sanctuary cities.”
One policy Trump has not promised is a return to #ZeroTolerance aka #FamilySeparation.
…Still, Trump has declined to take a clear stance on the issue. When asked if he’d reinstate it during a CNN townhall in May, he didn’t answer directly.

“When you have that policy, people don’t come,” #Trump said. “If a #family hears that they’re going to be separated, they love their family, they don’t come.”

When pressed whether that meant he would reinstate it, he said: “When you say to a family that if you come, we’re going to break you up, they don’t come & we can’t afford to have any more.”

During a separate interview w/Univision in Nov 2023, he said: “We did #FamilySeparation. A lot of people didn’t come. It stopped people from coming.”

@Nonilex
Meanwhile he's an Adderall addict and had an illegal pill mill in the W.H.
@Nonilex Since drug cartels do not exist in this country Trump must be referring to drug cartels that are south of the border. I doubt that we can do very much about them without the full cooperation of another country's government.
Cartels do not have a navy so a naval "embargo" makes no sense.
Any effective action against a cartel will require our almost permanent presence in that country and I doubt that Congress or a foreign government would approve that.
Trump's "solutions" are nothing new, but they do give him something to campaign about.
The war on drugs has been going on for decades. As long as we have the customers the cartels are more than happy to oblige.
If we legalized the drugs and controlled their distribution and use the cartels would dry up overnight.
@Nonilex
Isn't #MattWhitaker the "myToiletGuy"?
Trump A.G.’s Toilet-Scamming Days Come Back to Haunt Him

New reports show Matthew Whitaker allegedly tried to stonewall an investigation into his time with World Patent Marketing.

Vanity Fair