[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] President-elect Donald Trump's handpicked 'border czar' Tom Homan has said the administration is reconsidering immigration raids on Chicago and New York after details were leaked in news reports.
Homan, former acting director of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, told the Washington Post that the new administration 'hasn't made a decision yet.'
'We're looking at this leak and will make a decision based on this leak,' Homan said. 'It's unfortunate because anyone leaking law enforcement operations puts officers at great risk.'
ICE had its sights on the Democratic-run city of Chicago and NYC as its first targets for mass deportations, with a raid expected on Tuesday morning less than 24 hours after Trump's second inauguration.
It was reported that the operation would be carried out for an entire week and spend between 100-200 officers to handle the job.
News of the raids leaked after Chicago City Council rejected an effort to allow police to cooperate with immigration enforcement.
'We intend to stand by and protect Chicago's immigrant communities against threats from ICE,' Mayor Brandon Johnson said after the vote.
Homan then appeared on Fox News where he was asked by host Jesse Watters if he was 'blowing your cover' by asking about the 'big raid' in Chicago.
'Or do you want people to know? Maybe they can self-deport,' Watters said.
'There's going to be a big raid all across the country. Chicago is just one of many places,' Homan said. 'ICE is finally going to do their job. We're going to take the handcuffs off of ICE and let them go arrest criminal aliens. That's what's going to happen.'
Homan told the Post he didn't know why Chicago 'became a focus of attention' and said the incoming administration's enforcement goals are much broader than one city.
'ICE will start arresting public safety threats and national security threats on day one. We'll be arresting people across the country, uninhibited by any prior administration guidelines. Why Chicago was specifically mentioned, I don't know,' he said.
'This is a nationwide thing. We're not sweeping neighborhoods. We have a targeted enforcement plan.'
According to a person with knowledge of the plans, multi-day raids are expected from coast-to-coast.
'We're going to be doing operations all across the country,' the person told Reuters on Friday. 'You're going to see arrests in New York. You're going to see arrests in Miami.'
Homan previously told a crowd at the Northwest Side GOP holiday party that 'Chicago is in trouble because your mayor sucks and your governor sucks.'
He went on to call them both 'terrible,' while also urging them to follow in the footsteps of New York City Mayor Eric Adams and 'come to the table' for discussions, according to the Chicago Sun Times.
Homan also warned Johnson, who had vowed to fight the Trump administration's deportation plan, not to 'impede' his efforts.
'If he doesn't want to help, get the hell out of the way. If he knowingly harbors or conceals an illegal alien - I will prosecute him,' he said.
Homan said he would work on verifying the status of asylum seekers and arrest anyone who is found to be harboring criminal migrants.
He reiterated that there is no plan in place to separate families, though he suggested 'it may happen.'
'My goal is to enforce the law, but if you put yourself in that position, it may happen,' he said. 'But there's no plan in this administration right now to separate families.'
'However, we're going to enforce the law. So, if you put yourself in that position, it's on you. You can either take a child home with you or they just stay there, but you don't get a pass,' he said declaring that parents of Dreamers - the children of migrants born in the US - have two options.
Homan and other Trump aides have said they hope immigrants living in the United States illegally leave on their own, or 'self-deport', from fears of facing arrest.
Homan had previously criticized against advertising immigration raids ahead of time under Trump's 2018 administration. He called the Oakland, California mayor 'reckless' and 'irresponsible' for alerting city residents to a planned raid.
He noted then that after the report leaked, ICE made 150 arrests but were missing 864 fugitives.
Acting director for ICE during the Obama administration, John Sandweg, said he was surprised to see discussion of the raids ahead of time.
'Historically this is something we kept very close wraps on for officer safety reasons,' he said, adding that fugitives 'start hiding. It completely undermines the effectiveness of the operation by telegraphing that you're coming.'
He added that it is also unusual for ICE to begin planning raids before the new leadership is sworn in, official policies remain under Biden's control who was focused on more serious offenders than those who are solely undocumented.
'It's incredibly unusual. This isn't like policymaking or briefings, the normal stuff you see in transition,' Sandweg said. 'This is an actual operational planning for an operation to take place on the first day of an administration. That's weird.'
Advocates in Chicago said rumors of raids began circulating on social media on Wednesday, the Post reported. One WhatsApp group warned that a 'trusted source' had confirmed ICE would be patrolling the city from 5am to 9am on Inauguration Day and the next day would 'detain people heading to work or home.'
The Vice President of Immigration Justice for the Resurrection Project, Eréndira Rendón, said: 'We anticipated Chicago would be a target, but the message is the same: You should be as prepared as possible.'
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Sounds disappointing at first, but it does give give the illegals time to self-deport.
Is this a Sun Tzu move - announce a big operation and quietly show up somewhere else, or was the whole thing just a conversational flash-bang to get the discussion started?
[Archive.is] The spiraling cost to rebuild could overwhelm the California Fair Plan, the decades-old, government-created insurance safety net
A little-noticed rule change last year by California’s insurance regulator will likely shift a large chunk of the cost of the Los Angeles wildfires to homeowners across the state.
Pushed by insurers, the change puts California homeowners on the hook to pay directly toward the cost of rebuilding from very large disasters through even fatter insurance bills—whether they were exposed to the L.A. fire or not.
“That would be a huge wake up call for Californians because they have no idea that the rules have changed,” said Dave Jones, a former California insurance commissioner.
The new policy affects the backstop for California’s Fair Plan, the state’s insurer of last resort, which sells fire-damage policies to homeowners who can’t get coverage elsewhere.
The worry is that the Fair Plan lacks the resources to pay for the quickly escalating cost of the fires, which have destroyed tens of thousands of structures.
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No getting around it, California is expensive. Anybody thinking of moving here should think again. Unfair too. But that's to be expected of Democrats.
#8
As though insurance companies aren't going to raise their rates across the country to make up the shortfall. Yes, you will be paying for California's lousy decisions.
#12
I lived about 60 miles west of SF for 7 years. More fires than oli have ever seen in my life. The entire area was a tinderbox.
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#10, Can you say pandering? Yes, of course you can. It's what slimy bastards like Newsom do hoping to get a few more votes. Much, much easier and cheaper than being prepared for wildfires. Then when they riot over the next Gaza war, he'll let them riot. He'll let them blockade buildings on university campuses just like he has already done so Jewish students can be persecuted. Newsom will sell out the Juice. Just like Biden, he'll take the Jewish vote for granted. Dunno how long Democrats can get away with that.
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Exactly how bad you suspected- deferred maintenance on vehicles, stations and equipment-demokrats fleecing the tax base to pay for friends and pets.
"Mold, potholes, broken doors, collapsed ceilings.
The FP’s @AustynJeffs exposes the shocking conditions of Los Angeles fire stations that are falling apart.
“The firefighters I spoke to told me that the only way repairs are done is if they do it themselves—with their own money.”
#4
...In a perfect world, Trump's SECTREAS would make the following comment:
"...There is, bluntly, no possible way to assess and resolve this issue in time to avoid a shutdown, and the Biden administration and the Biden Administration ALONE is responsible for this.
Accordingly, I am asking President Trump to approve a partial government shutdown. This could take at a minimum, several days. We will not be bullied, we will not be cajoled, we will not be rushed. Any questions about how this happened should be forwarded to former Secretary Yellen and former President Biden."
[NYPOST] Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass got into office promoting diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) and promising to tackle homelessness and pollution — but she never promised to drain the swamp.
Now she stands accused of adding to it, through ''legalized corruption'' and a number of eye opening scandals which have come to light after renewed scrutiny in the last two weeks following the revelation Bass and her cronies defunded the Los Angeles Fire Department by $17 million, contributing to them being underprepared to tackle the wildfires currently destroying the city.
These include:
The deputy mayor raided by the FBI over an alleged bomb threat against City Hall.
Endorsing a former councilor investigated over hush money payments for congress.
Awarding fat cat salaries of $750k to a pal, double the predecessor's salary.
Council members accused of embezzlement, perjury, racketeering, tax evasion and bribes.
DWP is controlled by the mayor and city council. Last year, Bass hired Janisse Quinones, a fellow progressive who opaquely stressed her mission would be “righting the wrongs that we’ve done in the past from an infrastructure perspective,” as CEO of the utility.
Bass pays her a $750,000 salary — almost double what her predecessor was making.
Quinones has been blamed by some members of the city’s fire department for failing to fix broken hydrants, many of which ran dry as the Palisades fire consumed homes in the Malibu and Pacific Palisades neighborhoods on Jan. 8.
Consumer Watchdog and the Los Angeles Times launched a lawsuit in federal court last year to unseal dozens of warrants in an extortion scheme involving the Los Angeles City Attorney’s Office and the DWP.
The unsealed documents, some 1,400 pages, revealed the FBI believed Mike Feuer, the former City Attorney – the top lawyer to the city — had lied to investigators when he denied knowledge of a hush money payment to hide a litigation scandal in his office.
He called the claims “absurd” and was never prosecuted.
Feuer had run against Bass for mayor in 2022 but dropped out of the race and endorsed her. In turn, Bass endorsed Feuer, calling him “a longtime colleague and friend” who would “deliver for Los Angeles,” in a failed race for US Congress in 2023.
“We have a pay-to-play culture in Los Angeles,” said Susan Shelley, a member of the editorial board of the Southern California New Group, a columnist and vice president of communications for the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association, a non-profit. “It’s legalized corruption.”
In Los Angeles, politicians can request “behested payments” or donations from individuals and companies who have business before the city. “This would be called ‘extortion’ elsewhere,” said Shelley, adding the Mayor’s Fund for Los Angeles has received some $1.8 million in behested payments from companies such as AT&T and Coca Cola, among others.
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The thing most people don't realize, or perhaps ignore, about DEI - is that the benefits are not random. The winners are, on the average, the worst members of the "benefiting" group
The People’s March, a rebranded Women’s March, holds a rally in D.C. today to deny the election results and chant, “F— you fascists.” pic.twitter.com/S2OrKASJvQ
🚨🇺🇸PROTESTERS DEFACE PROPERTY ALONG TRUMP’S INAUGURATION PARADE ROUTE
Posters reading "Go Home Fascists" and "Eat The Rich" are covering the streets along the anti-Trump march route in Washington, D.C., just ahead of the inauguration.pic.twitter.com/6jfsZBHEVC
#4
Given the RINO's and LSD's that makeup Congress.
Is that even safe?
Plus, Defensive line.
Far as computerized DRONES go, a Ford 150 cargo Van with a 9H x 12L x 8W cargo area. Could easily and quickly launch 200 palm size drones with a Shotgun shell size EOD's, Bio or Chem load.
#6
Worst case scenario: a huge meteorite makes a direct strike on the Rotunda during the ceremony,
Not quite worst case: Meteorite is made of solid gold.
"Binary nerve gas refers to chemical weapons where the toxic agent is not contained within the weapon but is produced by mixing two less toxic precursors."
Scenario 1: Two guys(?) dressed in 3 piece suits enter the best ventilated common restroom, remove their vests and place them together to soak in the chlorinated toilet water. One fellow opens the janitor closet and dumps a gallon of cleaning solvent on the soaking vests. They then beat a hasty retreat.
Scenario 2: Many fellows each enter a nearby bathroom, removes his(?) shoe inserts, first left then right, toilet, solvent, etc.
Scenario 3: Unsexed OP, matching shoes, purse, etc.
#10
If there is another security SNAFU, the American people will have accountability. It will be like the public hanging in the aftermath of Lincoln’s death, but this time it will be shift work and the actual sponsors will take the extra stiff bungee drop along with the patsies.
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It should, and it is unfortunate this has to be stated, but after The Cabinet Confirmation Agitation, necessary.
[THEGATEWAYPUNDIT] Vivek Ramaswamy will announce a run for governor for Ohio, according to the Washington Post and The Hill.
RINO Governor Mike DeWine's term ends in 2026.
In November President Trump announced Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy will head the Department of Government Efficiency.
''I am pleased to announced that the Great Elon Musk, working in conjunction with American Patriot Vivek Ramaswamy, will lead the Department of Government Efficiency (''DOGE''). Together, these two wonderful Americans will pave the way for my Administration to dismantle Government Bureaucracy, slash excess regulations, cut wasteful expenditures, and restructure Federal Agencies — Essential to the ''Save America'' Movement,'' Trump said in a statement.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
