Trump's Mass Deportation Playbook
Seven ways Homan can leverage ICE to implement chaos.
Good morning. Donald Trump is set to retake the presidency for another 49 days, but that hasn’t stopped his incoming “border czar,” Tom Homan, from making the rounds on TV news shows. Homan has issued threats to everyone from big-city mayors to ordinary citizens who harbor undocumented migrants—anyone standing in the way of the president-elect’s mass deportation agenda.
But is Homan serious? And if so, how much harm can Trump do to migrant communities—and how quickly? An interview by Nadia Reiman with Jason Houser, the former chief of staff to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) under Joe Biden, offers some of the clearest answers about the operational capacity Homan inherits to carry out Trump’s mass deportation policies. Let’s dig in…