Perhaps Homan’s proposal for mass deportation would sound more reasonable even if he and Miller were working off the same plan. Like the innocents in Miller’s stories, he argued that mass deportations were necessary to protect the American people and American sovereignty, both of which Homan portrayed as endangered. Homan enthused at the Heritage Foundation’s “policy festival” at the RNC in July. declared As he envisions mass deportation, “No one is leaving the table. The bottom line is this: Every illegal alien is a criminal. They are entering the country in violation of federal law. “It is a crime to enter this country illegally.” (Homan is currently a member of the Heritage Foundation, the group best known for spearheading Project 2025. disgrace.) Trump and Miller’s own coined “criminal immigrant” of invading rapists can be contained by Homan’s much more expansive “illegal alien” – who is a criminal no matter what he may or may not have done.

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60 Minutes report. He tried to draw a brighter line. “If I’m in charge of this, my priorities are public safety threats and national security threats,” he told reporter Vega. “It means the others follow first,” he insisted. Homan immediately replied: “Absolutely.” What if other people were caught in the raids — an undocumented grandmother, Vega asked, would she be deported? Homan’s answer was that he could. “Let the judge decide,” he said. “We will deport those whom the judge decides to deport.” (Of course, immigration officers do not limit themselves during raids to just those the judge has ordered deported, and those people will not appear before the judge unless they are first arrested and detained under Homan’s order. , .) “Is there a way to do mass deportations without separating families?” Vega asked. “Of course there is,” Homan said. “Families can be deported together.” If undocumented parents are forced to abandon their children born in the United States, “they’ve created this crisis,” he said.

Homan tried to present mass deportation as an unknown process that had just been set in motion, rather than as a series of decisions that people made and exerted their power over. As Homan said earlier, no one leaves the table. Miller’s propaganda on the Madison Square Garden stage Sunday night may sound uglier, but Homan’s follows the same logic: No matter how oppressive, illegal or destructive, what they do is nothing. their responsibility. He means that this is reasonable and inevitable. But instead, it confirms that every hateful word Trump uttered at his fascist rally was serious, with a policy proposal to back it up.