Along with Trump allies such as Tucker Carson and Steve Bannon, he has also given credence to what’s known as the “Great Replacement” conspiracy theory, which fosters the belief that leftist elites are engineering the ethnic and cultural replacement of white populations with non-white immigrants.
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Miller is now the lead architect of Trump’s plans for mass deportation of undocumented immigrants, and has previously said that a second Trump administration would seek a tenfold increase in the number of deportations to more than one million per year.
“America is for Americans and Americans only!” he declared at Trump’s now infamous Madison Square Gardens rally last month.
“I want you to think for a minute about the decades of abuse that has been heaped on the good people of this nation. Their jobs looted and stolen from them, and shipped to Mexico, Asia and foreign countries. The lives of their loved ones, ripped away from them from illegal aliens, criminal gangs and thugs who don’t belong in this country!”
Homan, meanwhile is a visiting fellow at the Heritage Foundation, the conservative think tank that wrote the Project 2025 blueprint.
Children listen to speakers during an immigration family separation protest in Phoenix, Arizona, in 2018. Credit: AP
He worked for Trump’s first administration and was one of the architects behind its controversial family separation policy, which saw more than 5500 children of immigrants separated from their parents at the US-Mexico border in 2018 under the shortlived “Zero Tolerance” policy.
According to the Department of Homeland Security, as of April this year, 1401 children had still not been reunited with their families after being separated.
Homan’s areas of control will now include “the southern border, the northern border, all maritime, and aviation security,” Trump said in announcing his appointment on social media.
“There is nobody better at policing and controlling our Borders,” Trump wrote.
The push to deport undocumented immigrants was Trump’s signature election policy, but implementing the policy is not expected to be easy.
Tom Homan: “It’s going to be a well-targeted, planned operation conducted by the men of ICE.”Credit: Bloomberg
For instance, there are currently 11 million undocumented immigrants in America: foreign-born people who do not possess a valid visa or other immigration documentation because they entered the US illegally, stayed longer than their temporary visa permitted, or otherwise violated the terms under which they were admitted.
Contrary to Trump’s rhetoric about “migrant crime” the vast majority are not criminals, but rather, working in sectors such as agriculture, construction and hospitality, and adding to the economy as consumers and rent payers.
Many also have US citizen children and spouses, therefore large-scale deportations could result in family separations that would psychologically damage children.
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As the incoming administration works out how to implement its policy, Homan said during an interview over the weekend that “families can be deported together,” suggesting children who are US citizens but with undocumented parents would have to go with them.
Months earlier, at the Republican National Convention, he said Trump would designate Mexican cartels a “terrorist organisation” for their role in smuggling fentanyl over the border, warning that: “He’s gonna wipe you off the face of the Earth.”
Miller has also spoken about his vision of deportation at a Conservative Political Action Conference this year.
The first objective, he said, would be to “seal the border – no illegals in, everyone here goes out.” The second would involve establishing “large-scale staging grounds” where “you grab illegal immigrants and then you move them to the staging grounds where the planes are waiting for federal law enforcement to remove those illegals home.”
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