Chicago to be ground zero for mass deportations, Trump border czar tells Illinois Republicans (WBEZ - NPR)

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Chicago to be ground zero for mass deportations, Trump border czar tells Illinois Republicans
https://www.wbez.org/immigration/2024/12/10/border-czar-tom-homan-donald-trump-chicago-pritzker-brandon-johnson-immigration

President-elect Donald Trump’s border czar Tom Homan came to Chicago on Monday to implore Mayor Brandon Johnson and Gov. JB Pritzker to “come to the table” and negotiate with him over a mass deportation plan that he declared would start right here.

Homan, the former acting head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement during Trump’s first term, began a 20-minute address at a Northwest Side GOP “holiday party” with some light ribbing before detailing his plan, which includes verifying the status of asylum seekers and arresting those who are found harboring criminals.

“Chicago’s in trouble because your mayor sucks and your governor sucks,” Homan said to cheers. Later, he called both “terrible,” while also telling them to “come to the table.”

To Johnson, who has said he would protect the city’s immigrants from federal agents, Homan said, “If he doesn’t want to help, get the hell out of the way.”

Homan threatened to arrest people who are found with the criminals he is targeting — regardless of whether he has cooperation from the city. He urged the mayor to meet with him — following the lead of New York City Mayor Eric Adams.

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[Johnny2X2X]

1. The policy is already in place

Biden followed a policy of targeting and removing immigrants who are criminals. And the cities cooperate with this all the time.

Tells me they're going to put on a show, but nothing will change all that much.

[bucolic_frolic]

2. So this is political against Gov. Pritzker. Not a sound basis for policy.

[GoCubsGo]

3. How fucking juvenile.

"Your mayor sucks." "Your governor sucks." This coming from a high-level government official, and supposed mature adult? What is this? Fucking high school? Good gawd. We are absolutely in The Idiocracy.

[tanyev]

4. The playground bullies took over the GOP, and soon they'll be running the country.

Into the ground.

[Prairie Gates]

8. While I think there would be somewhat widespread agreement on Johnson

Whose popularity has plummeted in Chicago, the idea that Pritzker "sucks" would probably not even garner widespread agreement in Republican areas of the state, even if these GOP activists all cheered. Pritzker is a popular governor who won a second term in a walk (though, to be fair, he was running against one of the stupidest people ever to run for governor, and that's a high bar).

[maxrandb]

5. "This business will get out of control and we'll be lucky to live through it""

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[travelingthrulife]

6. Man Baby.

This will clear out all those pesky agricultural illegal immigrants more quickly.

[MichMan]

10. Was not aware that there are a lot of migrants that choose to move to Chicago in order to work in agricultural jobs.

Interesting

[mopinko]

7. did abbott keep track of all the ppl he dumped on us?

weird how the gqp dumped them here, then blames us.
they’re just not ppl to these thugs.

it cd get interesting.

[Prairie Gates]

9. The thing that's wild is that Chicago has been largely successful in integrating them

or moving them on to other places. There was an initial crisis where the police stations and O'Hare had to be used as temporary shelters, but that's mostly abated. The bus drop-offs were regulated by local statutes and the bus companies, contrary to the insistence of many trolls (ahem - some who even deleted their whole conversations with me...), have abided by the regulations rather than challenging them in court. In fact, the conclusion to be drawn is that Texas and similar states are simply incompetent at handling migrant issues, while Illinois has proven itself to be competent following an initial rush. Surely there's more work to do, and, quite frankly, Texas has somewhat proved its point about the resource drain, which was - and is - significant. At the same time, Illinois handled it, while other states threw little temper tantrums. It might be that Illinoisans are just better at handling stuff.