Trump's new border czar is a NIGHTMARE for Democrats



It hasn’t even been a full week since Donald Trump won the election, but that hasn’t stopped him from already following through on one of his biggest campaign promises: border security.

“I am pleased to announce that the Former ICE Director, and stalwart on Border Control, Tom Homan, will be joining the Trump Administration, in charge of our Nation’s Borders (‘The Border Czar’), including, but not limited to, the Southern Border, the Northern Border, all Maritime, and Aviation Security,” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social.

“I’ve known Tom for a long time, and there is nobody better at policing and controlling our Borders. Likewise, Tom Homan will be in charge of all Deportation of Illegal Aliens back to their country of Origin. Congratulations to Tom. I have no doubt that he will do a fantastic, and long awaited for, job,” Trump concluded.

Sara Gonzales of “Sara Gonzales Unfiltered” is thrilled, especially considering Homan has a proven track record of being quite impressive in the past.


“He was already in charge of ICE under Donald Trump, he did a tremendous job, takes this very seriously, has dedicated many years of his life to public service,” Gonzales says, noting that a recent speech of his at the Republican National Convention was incredibly comforting.

Homan began explaining everything Kamala Harris and Joe Biden did and didn’t do to prevent the immigration crisis, before sharing what the consequences were.

“Now we have a record illegal migration, a record number of women and children being sex trafficked, a record number of Americans dying from fentanyl, a record number of known suspected terrorists sneaking across our border, and here’s what you need to know. This isn’t mismanagement, this isn’t incompetence. This is by design, and it’s a choice. It’s national suicide,” Homan said in his powerful speech.

“I got a message, as a guy who spent 34 years deporting illegal aliens. I got a message to the millions of illegal aliens that Joe Biden’s releasing into our country in violation of federal law: You better start packing now,” Homan finished.

“This is what making America great again looks like,” Gonzales says.

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Chip Roy: Trump must 'stick with a plan the American people want, which is a secure border'

On Tuesday, House Freedom Caucus member Chip Roy, R-Texas, appeared on CNN's "Cuomo Prime Time" with host Andrew Cuomo to discuss the border negotiations in Congress.

Roy objected to the reported agreement between Republicans and Democrats in Congress to give the Trump administration $1.375 billion for physical barriers and 55 miles of new fencing, saying it is not enough.

"I think the president needs to stick needs to stick with a plan that the American people want, which is a secure border," Roy told Cuomo.

"We found 54 people in a stash house in Houston, Texas, who were being held [for] ransom by the cartels that have operational control of our border and that are dictating to the United States the terms of what our security and our border looks like," he said.

Roy argued in favor of more funding for physical barriers on the border.

"If you look at the Rio Grande Valley sector alone, on the eastern section by the gulf of Mexico, you've got about 35 miles of fencing and significant infrastructure. On the western side, by McAllen, you've got very little infrastructure. Ninety-four percent of the traffic comes up the western side," Roy said.

Cuomo and Roy both agreed that physical barriers are necessary to secure the border, but got into a debate on the priority of a wall. Cuomo's position is that President Trump is wrong to prioritize the wall when changing immigration laws and giving Border Patrol additional resources are more important to law enforcement agencies. Roy said a physical barrier must be "one piece of the entire solution."

"Here's the reason the American people want a physical barrier: It's evidence that there's something happening at the border rather than more talk. We've had talk for 15 years and now people are dying," Roy continued.

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MUST READ from Rep. Chip Roy: Americans are suffering while Democrats throw 'temper tantrums'

House Freedom Caucus member Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, fed up with the "political theater" surrounding the government shutdown, took to Twitter Thursday to blast Democrats for throwing "temper tantrums" over $5.7 billion in wall funding requested by President Trump for border security.

Read every word of this thread:

This is why President Trump and the Republicans must stand strong and refuse to give in until Congress funds border security. American lives are at stake.

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Mark Levin: President Trump can declare a national emergency — with his power under the laws made by Congress

These NeverTrumpers get dumber by the minute.

The National Emergencies Act of 1976 allows the president to trigger emergency powers conferred on him not by me, but by Congress. It has been in place in various forms for more than 150 years. It confers powers on a president that I think go too far, such as confiscating private businesses, etc.

In this case, involving building a border barrier of some kind, that is a uniquely federal governmental responsibility. The president can use the law to undertake such a project, and it can be challenged in the courts or overturned by a joint resolution of Congress. He needs to make his case under the statute, which is an easy case — that securing the southern border is a national emergency, given the chaos there, the related consequences, and the refusal by the Democrats to address it in any meaningful way and their holding the rest of the government hostage.

The president can use the legitimate legal tools available to him to try to solve these problems. Unlike Obama, he is not legislating by creating, say, DACA, which is unconstitutional and violates separation of powers. Congress set up this process. This isn't a misuse of unconstitutional authority. It's about statutory interpretation.

I would encourage the NeverTrumpers to try to put their country ahead of their egos and try to control their emotional outbursts.

Editor's note: This article was originally published as a Facebook note and has been edited. 

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The cost of the wall is nothing compared to the yearly cost of illegal immigration

Would you let criminals take your home and hurt your family, or would you pay for a front door that locks?

It typically costs roughly $1,500-$2,000 to purchase and install a no-frills exterior door on your home. Not cheap at all. But would you agonize over the cost for a minute when the entire cost and safety of your whole home and its occupants are on the line, especially when dangerous criminals, burglars, and murderers are specifically targeting your neighborhood for infiltration?

Well, elected officials are like the head of this household, America is our house, and our southern border is our exterior front door. But almost all leaders in both parties are unanimous that it’s more important to spend money on the front doors of states in the Middle East rather than our own to prevent, among others, Middle Eastern terrorists from coming here. These are people who have already funded the other seven governmental departments at record levels, yet they can’t find $25 billion or even $5 billion for a national front door.

To illustrate the warped priorities of the elites, one cowardly Republican senator gave the following anonymous quote to Politico, “Syria is crumbling. And we're talking about a f&^king wall.”

The sad fact is that, putting aside the merits of our Middle East policies, if you believe we need security in the Middle East, then by a factor of 10,000 you should be clamoring for it on our own border.

Illegal immigration: the needless and expensive unfunded liability on Americans

Last week, Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen testified before the House Judiciary Committee that the Border Patrol is averaging 2,100 apprehensions per day so far this fiscal year. That is an annualized rate of 766,500 illegals. Those are just the ones we catch. How many are allowed to come in undetected as a result of the agents being tied up with family units? While there is no definitive number, the best estimate the government has is from a 2016 Institute for Defense Analysis report prepared for the DHS. If you look at the last time annual apprehensions reached over 700,000, our apprehension rate was only 40 percent, which would put us at a projected flow of 1.7 million per year. Now, it’s very likely that with the new era of lawfare and illegals surrendering themselves to agents on purpose, a higher share of the illegal crossers are being “apprehended,” but let’s just say the total border flow is slated for one million this year.

Can you imagine the fiscal, social, and security cost of one million individuals from the most impoverished countries being smuggled over by the most violent drug cartels? Suddenly, the two thousand soldiers in Syria doesn’t seem like such a big deal, does it?

According to Steve Camarota of the Center for Immigration Studies, the lifetime cost of an illegal alien is $74,722. If the descendants of these illegal immigrants are factored into the equation, the cost increases to $94,391 per illegal alien. And if different methodologies are used to calculate the lifetime fiscal cost (not using net present value), the cost could be as high as $140,000-$150,000 per illegal, according to Camarota.

At one million illegal aliens every year, that is a cost of between $74 and $150 billion every year just for that year’s flow of illegal immigrants. And no, there are not only 12 million illegal immigrants in the country. When prompted by Steve King at the judiciary hearing, Nielsen admitted that there definitely are somewhere between 12 and 22 million, “higher than originally estimated.”

The cost of illegal immigration is so unconscionable that the media makes sure we never have the data and anecdotes that will force such a conversation. Now, with the fight over funding a border wall, is the time for that conversation.

Moreover, aside from preventing the cost of illegal immigration, by focusing our investment in border enforcement specifically on a border wall, which is an upfront non-reccurring cost for something that actually works, we will save billions in extra funding for the many other assets that have failed to secure the border. Just over the past decade, we have spent over $100 billion on different methods of security, but to no avail — all to avoid the $25 billion cost of building a security barrier. Then there is the crushing cost of detention and housing. Even before the flow of family units, according to the Washington Times, HHS paid over $1.4 billion last year to care for nearly 41,000 Unaccompanied Alien Children (UACs) in its facilities, who stayed 41 days on average, costing taxpayers about $670 per day for each child.

In fact, by not building a wall, simply hiring more border agents is actually counterproductive.  The more border agents we have without a wall, the more the agents are used by the cartels in a tactical game of migration football, as one agent described to me, so they can bring in their drugs without detection.

The human toll of not having a national front door

And speaking of the cost of drugs, how do you put a price on the tens of thousands of people dying of drugs every single year? An analysis by the White House Council of Economic Advisers last year found that the overall cost of the crisis to the U.S. economy in 2015 was over $500 billion. Where does it come from? All of the heroin and methamphetamine, most of the cocaine, and most of the fentanyl come in through the Mexican border.

Then there is the crime. As I wrote last week, the number of ICE apprehensions of criminal aliens just for one year is mind-boggling, given that most illegals live in sanctuaries where ICE has limited access to arrest them:

As Secretary Nielsen said last week, there are one million criminal aliens in this country with orders of removal. Those are just the ones we caught and who have final orders of removal without some liberal judge overturning them.

Remember, these are recurring costs, crimes, and deaths, every single year, while the cost of the border wall is mainly up front.

While the media now reports on every single death of a migrant at the hands of the cartels and parents while blaming them on the Border Patrol, it fails to report on the appalling number of Americans killed every year because of our senseless border policies. ICE apprehends criminal aliens collectively responsible for 1,600-2,000 murders every single year. This past year, it was 2,028. Just last week, a 51-year-old Californian, Rocky Paul Jones, was killed by Gustavo Garcia, an illegal alien who had already been deported, after the local sheriff was forced to ignore an ICE detainer, according to Breitbart. Thanks to a lack of a border wall, he was able to come back again, and thanks to California’s sanctuary problems, Garcia was never turned over to ICE. Therefore, Jones never got to spend another Christmas with his family.

What about all that violence in Chicago? Believe it or not, the most wanted criminal responsible for gang violence in the city is not a domestic criminal. It’s El Mencho, the head of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, which is every bit as violent as ISIS, is flooding our country with migrants, gangs, and drugs, and is possibly responsible for an attempted attack on our consulate in Guadalajara. Except unlike fighters in Syria, these people are on our border and have agents in our major cities.

We haven’t even delved into the diseases, cultural problems, strain on our schools, and the flow of Middle Easterners coming in through Central America.

Lack of sovereignty is the greatest shutdown of the federal government

At its core, we have a federal government to protect Americans from external threats while states and local governments take care of internal affairs. We have 50 state governments, over 3,000 county governments, and a total of roughly 90,000 local and municipal governments in this country.  Why do we need a federal government if not to protect us from external threats? If the federal government refuses to take care of us and illegal aliens get to suck us dry with welfare, catch-and-release, sanctuaries, birthright citizenship, and being counted in our own reapportionment, then why even have a federal government at all? Moreover, if the onetime $25 billion cost of the border wall will trump the hundreds of billions of annual costs from illegal aliens, then what is the point of passing a federal budget at all?

Behold the difference between the nation-state shutdown and today’s so-called federal shutdown. Remember, 70 percent of government is mandatory spending and not subject to appropriations, while 75 percent of the remaining 30 percent of discretionary spending, including the military and Veterans’ Affairs, is already funded for the remainder of this fiscal year. For that matter, even the Department of Education is funded. To that end, today, the nonessential portion of 25 percent of the 30 percent of the government that is discretionary, yet not fully funded through September, is shut down. Americans would take that any day of the week over the shutdown of our nation-state at the hands of illegal invaders and drug cartels.

The most important decision a society will ever make is whom to admit as a permanent member of that society, which in turn will affect every other policy decision. As such, that decision must be kept at arm’s length by the existing citizenry through their elected representatives. When people enter or remain in a country against the national will, it is a violation of sovereignty and governance by the consent of the governed, and it reflects a failure of the social contract between the citizenry and its government. It also costs a heck of a lot more than a border wall, much like losing all your possessions is much more expensive than paying for a front door.

At this point, the only main departments that are not funded are Homeland Security and Justice. But if those agencies will not be permitted to protect our justice and homeland from invaders, let’s shutter the doors indefinitely. Why else have a federal government?

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In just 17 months, illegal alien family units increased by 960 percent (!!!) at the border

There are a lot more than roughly 14,000 people seeking to invade our border.

The American people are rightfully concerned about the brazen “caravan” of invaders headed for our southern border and fully expect that it will be stopped at all costs before it reaches our border, not in our courtrooms. However, we must not lose sight of the likely 800,000-strong quiet invasion at a less public level that is crossing our border this year.

Brand new data from Customs and Border Protection (CBP) should mobilize Trump and Republicans to not just focus on the caravan but on finally stopping the broader invasion in its entirety.

The big picture of FY 2018 border data

According to CBP, roughly 400,000 illegals were caught sneaking in between our points of entry in FY 2018. Another roughly 125,000 presenting themselves at the port of entry in FY 2018 were deemed inadmissible. The fact that the overall numbers increased by 106,000 from FY 2017 is enough of a concern, but several other data points are even more concerning. The trajectory and the nature of the border crossings are what should really worry us.

First, it’s important to remember that border agents will tell you that the U.S. typically apprehends only 50 percent of those who illegally cross the border. That means that there were likely close to 800,000 people who crossed the border last year not at our points of entry. As such, it’s not just the several hundred thousand illegals that were released into our population after being apprehended that should concern those who care about their communities and schools. What is more concerning are the people we never apprehended, who most likely are more dangerous than the ones we did apprehend. As Brandon Judd, president of the Border Patrol Council, explained on my podcast several months ago:

The criminal cartels are pushing them [the family units] in front as “the sacrificial lambs,” forcing me to use my resources to take them into custody, so that they can then cross the dangerous criminals right behind them. And we play into their hands by continuing to humanize the way things are happening on the border.

Just from a drug crisis standpoint, the hundreds of thousands of undetected illegals coming in every year – thanks to the faux sympathy over “families” – is terrifying. As the LA Times wrote in a recent report, “Chinese companies send fentanyl in small quantities to dealers in the United States or Canada, but ship the drugs in bulk to criminal cartels in Mexico.” Then what happens? “The cartels then mix the synthetics into heroin and other substances, or press them into counterfeit pills. The product is then smuggled across the border.”

The president is signing a series of “opioid bills” today, all of which fail to recognize this premise as the main cause of the 72,000 annual deaths.

Illegal immigration is all tied to our own self-immolating incentives   

The next data point that should concern us is the trajectory of the increase, which is unfathomable. While the overall numbers aren’t higher than they were during Obama's tenure, that is because the numbers dropped to a once-in-a-generation low during the first few months of Trump’s presidency just based on the perception that he’d enforce our sovereignty. Since illegals saw that nothing changed, the numbers surged beyond belief. A total of 16,658 family units were caught between the points of entry in September, a new record and a sharp spike from the previous months. In total, 161,113 family units were apprehended this year. Remember, only 1.4 percent of the family units apprehended last year were deported, so almost all of them remain in our communities, along with the nearly half a million others who were never apprehended! And this is growing every year.

As you can see from this graph, the number of illegals surged 220 percent since the lowest point of the border invasion in April 2017 and 50 percent since last September. What is most remarkable is that the number of family units apprehended has gone up by 960 percent since last April and 280 percent since last September. The numbers spiked 55 percent since this past July, when our bipartisan political elites shilled for the invaders and lamented the “separating of families” rather than the harm caused to American families. If you just isolate the family unit apprehensions to those caught between the points of entry, the numbers increased by 85 percent in just two months! And as Mark Dannels, the head of the Arizona Sheriff’s Association, told me yesterday, “The numbers have not plateaued and are still surging throughout October,” at least in Arizona.

Notice how illegal immigration dropped after the initial rise when Trump implemented the zero-tolerance policy earlier this year? Yes, it’s all about incentives.

What’s also disturbing is that this border surge, unlike the one in 2014-2015, is across the entire southern border, not just in the far-east Rio Grande sector. Although in raw numbers, the overwhelming plurality still came through the Rio Grande sector this year, UAC apprehensions did not increase since last year, while family units increased by a “modest” 27 percent in the busiest sector. Contrast that to Arizona, where family unit apprehensions increased in the Tucson and Yuma sectors by 143 percent and 140 percent respectively. Apprehensions were also up sharply in the other Texas border sectors as well as in San Diego.

Furthermore, the number of family units coming at the points of entry spiked 84 percent since FY 2017, which tells us that they are trying to get caught and surrender themselves thanks to catch-and-release policies in place.

Finally, it’s important to point out that the overwhelming majority of the increased flow was from just one country: Guatemala. While in previous years, the migration from El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala was more uniform, this year the migration from Guatemala outpaced the other two by far. Why? As ICE’s Phoenix field director, Henry Lucero, said, “On the news in Guatemala they are saying that you can get a work permit if you’re in a family, if you’re coming with your child, and that you’re going to be released.”

Again, it’s all about incentives.

Try to imagine for a moment the ill effects it has on our community to bring in hundreds of thousands of predominantly male migrants from the most violent, impoverished countries directly linked to the smuggling routes of drugs and gangs? Talk about an issue to win over suburban mothers.

Imagine if Trump were to call Congress back into session and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., for once, would actually speak with as much passion as he does on the issue. Then, indeed, there would be a red wave.

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