{"id":12689,"date":"2025-01-18T21:41:16","date_gmt":"2025-01-18T21:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/?p=12689"},"modified":"2025-01-18T21:41:16","modified_gmt":"2025-01-18T21:41:16","slug":"trumps-border-tsar-vows-shock-and-awe-deportations-in-first-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/?p=12689","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s border tsar vows \u2018shock and awe\u2019 deportations in first week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__content-sign-up-topic-description\">Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world<\/p>\n<p><iframe class=\"article__content-sign-up-iframe close\" scrolling=\"no\" id=\"signUpIframe\" data-prev-url=\"\/register\/in-article-sign-up?ft-content-uuid=f216ff88-bfd3-473a-b52f-d7d78a4d54e1&amp;newsletter-id=65b8fec772badb00166eafc6\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div id=\"article-body\">\n<p>Donald Trump\u2019s border tsar has vowed a \u201cshock and awe\u201d approach to deportations in the first week of the new administration, with sweeping raids targeting undocumented migrants in cities across the US.<\/p>\n<p>Tom Homan said that the incoming president would immediately unveil a series of executive orders directing \u201ctargeted enforcement operations\u201d by federal officers against immigrants with criminal records.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re going to see \u2014 in the first week \u2014 you\u2019re going to see the shock and awe on the border and you\u2019re going to see it in the interior,\u201d Homan told Fox News on Saturday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re going to be targeted enforcement operations. When [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] goes out, they\u2019re going to know exactly who they\u2019re looking for and pretty much where they\u2019ll find them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump made immigration a central pillar of his re-election campaign, employing increasingly draconian language at rallies that included accusing immigrants of \u201cpoisoning the blood of our country\u201d. <\/p>\n<p>He has promised to pursue the \u201clargest deportation programme of criminals in the history of America\u201d beginning on the first day of his return to the White House.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019ll begin very early, very quickly,\u201d Trump said in a separate interview with NBC on Saturday.\u00a0\u201cWe have to get the criminals out of our country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The president-elect declined to say which cities would be targeted first \u201cbecause things are evolving\u201d, but Homan has previously indicated that Democrat-run Chicago would be \u201cground zero\u201d for the raids.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, Homan warned Democrats in so-called \u201csanctuary cities\u201d that failure to co-operate with ICE officials in apprehending migrants with criminal records would cause federal authorities to pursue larger raids leading to a greater number of arrests and deportations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese sanctuary policies are going to force us into communities and the result is going to be exactly what they don\u2019t want \u2014 more aliens arrested, more collaterals arrested, because they forced us into this position.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The directives on immigration will be part of a \u201crecord-setting number\u201d of executive orders the incoming president has said he will sign on his first day in office, alongside others on tariffs, energy and deregulation. <\/p>\n<p>Neither Trump nor Homan would give specifics as to what the migration orders would entail, but people familiar with the plans said they would probably stir debate over the president\u2019s powers to involve the military.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think there\u2019s going to be a serious conversation about whether he has the authority to send troops to the border \u2014 or do you just send the National Guard in a higher number?\u201d said one Republican member of Congress. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s something that you should expect.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/f216ff88-bfd3-473a-b52f-d7d78a4d54e1\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":12690,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-us","cs-entry","cs-video-wrap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}