No 'price tag' for mass deportations, says incoming border czar

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Yahoo News!/The Hill

Thu, December 26, 2024 at 4:49 PM EST


(NewsNation) — Incoming Trump administration border czar Tom Homan tells NewsNation’s Ali Bradley there is no “price tag” for the mass deportations planned by the incoming administration, citing “national security” concerns.

“What price do you put on national security? I don’t think it has a price tag,” Homan said. “What price do you put on the thousands of American moms and dads who buried their children? You want to talk about family separation; they buried their children because their children were murdered by illegal aliens that weren’t supposed to be here. I don’t put a price on that. I don’t put a price on national security. I don’t put a price on American lives.”

Homan further defended the mass deportations’ $86 billion price tag, saying it would save American taxpayers money in the future.“This operation would be expensive,” he acknowledged. “However, it’s going to save taxpayers a lot of money in the long run. Right now, we’re spending billions of dollars on free airline tickets, free hotel rooms, free medical care, free meals, the education system.”

Homan, however, said they will also need help from Congress. “We need more resources; we need funding. We obviously need to buy more detention beds because everybody we arrest, we have to detain to work on those removal efforts and get travel documents, get flight arrangements. So we need more detention beds,” said Homan.

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[JustAnotherGen]

1. Pathetic

This coming from a spokesperson for a bunch of criminals.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

2. Yeah, there are no "thousands burying their children" from immigrant crime, which runs at rates lower than Homan's demo.

[BoRaGard]

4. Guy needs to be called on on that stinking lie

I mean, we know he's a repube, and repubes lie. But that's a big fat stinking, dangerous one.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

13. Yes. It's the oldest play in the fascist playbook. . . . nt

[rainy]

18. This lie is so diabolical. People believe the worst about immigrants; that they are bring drugs and are murdering our

children. How this got so ingrained into the American minds is the biggest crime and media are the worst criminals for not correcting the big lies of these fascists!

Makes me deeply fearful for our county! So very sad we are here in the middle of this cruel chaos!

The truth is not important to media organizations that only care about profits and being in with the in crowd.

[Botany]

34. "What price do you put on the thousands of American moms and dads who buried their children?

Joesph Goebbels, “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.“

[huguards]

46. They do this over and over.

Double poison to this accusation.

1.) Cultivates the idea of immigrants as criminal

2.) Efforts to debunk prompt defenders to repeat the accusation which provides raw material for further attacks.

The most effective way to counter this sort of tactic is to ensure a negative expected result.

Any ideas?

Only responses off the table are: violence, lying or causing suffering for our allies.

You know, don't be a Trump.

[dickthegrouch]

60. Flooding the system is a way to disrupt it

Have tens of thousands report to each concentration camp every day. Overwhelmed facilities will start causing civil rights violations just like in 1939-44.

Have Native Americans arrest thousands of whites.

Take every executive order and follow it to the letter, to hell with the spirit, which was malevolent to begin with, and show the ignorant masses that incompetence is very harmful.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

62. Welcome to DU

[33taw]

39. Why doesn't someone ask for a list of those thousands of victims?

[BoRaGard]

3. "We'll make the peasants pay. As usual." - g.o.p. billionaire-bros

"Suckers." - gop

[NJCher]

5. Trump will find a way

To make a buck off it, that you can bet.

[AverageOldGuy]

6. So . . .

. . . they are poisoning our blood, murdering our children, and eating our dogs and cats are they???

[FullySupportDems]

30. And taking our jobs and gov unemployment benefits too

Because cognitive dissonance

[Walleye]

7. So is Mexico gonna pay for it? Another fucking moron running a department.

Does Elon think this belongs in the department of government efficiency”? Because it doesn’t seem too goddamn efficient to me

[everyonematters]

8. The great majority of these people are acting as good citizens just trying to make a living.

To get rid of the criminals, all you have to do is find them. If Trump goes thru with this, along with the tariffs, he will throw the country into a recession.

[NoMoreRepugs]

12. Recession at minimum, the Global implications are ENORMOUS.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

9. No wonder Felon47 wanted to eliminate the debt ceiling.

It would be like giving a drunken sailor an American Express Gold Card, which has no upward limit.

[aggiesal]

40. He wants the debt limit eliminated under Biden's term, ...

so he can blame Biden.
And (R)'s will try again after they're sworn in on Jan. 3rd.

I posted this a couple of weeks ago.
https://democraticunderground.com/100219838867

[Beachnutt]

10. No price tag on national security huh ?

How about go after someone who stole Classified documents.

[RVN VET71]

56. Don't get all up in it about Fatso's theft of classified documents.

It's not as if he's kept them to himself, after all.

[NBachers]

11. Put them in camps, force them to work & make money off 'em; sell the kids off to pedo's and Jaysuss abusers.

[Ferrets are Cool]

14. What a disgrace and upcoming debacle.

[The Madcap]

15. Crimes against Humanity incoming...

They will end up buying millions of bullets. Much cheaper. Be forewarned.

[Blue_Tires]

16. Lots of Donnie-connected contractors already lined up at the pork barrel

https://abcnews.go.com/US/trumps-deportation-plan-private-prison-industry-sees-lucrative/story?id=115775702

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/11/27/private-contractors-in-us-eye-windfall-from-trumps-push-to-deport-migrants

[Bengus81]

20. Gosh...so it was never really was about deportation...nah,billions from the Government for "rent" payments to

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Trumps buds that own prisons/labor camps.

I...I'm sooo shocked

[orangecrush]

17. All the money to private prisons

And a cut for the administration in contributions.

Let the looting begin.

[Irish_Dem]

19. "No price tag" means gigantic grift.

An endless supply of taxpayer money goes into Trump's pockets.

[underpants]

31. Run buy private prison corporations

Splinter payments fir different elements between account codes so it doesn’t look like there’s one amount.

[Irish_Dem]

38. Trump crime syndicate is expert at hiding their money crimes.

[live love laugh]

21. The guy who looks like cauliflower nose is inevitable? And who reeks dumb?

That guy?

[kairos12]

22. Thousands murdered by illegal immigrants

What the fuck is he talking about. He must be confusing with all the white guys shooting people in schools and parades. What a vile piece of shit.

This is hate propaganda straight from the NAZI playbook of the 30s.

[in2herbs]

23. Isn't there an international organization (Hauge???) that prosecutes people for this? Whatever

international organization can do this they should. The US is not immune from prosecution for human rights abuses.

[jimfields33]

28. We do not belong to such a group.

I don’t believe we ever joined The Hague.

[Red Mountain]

24. He forgets he has to ask Congress for money

to do anything of any scale. Yes, the couch has enough change for some symbolic theatrics......but the main show is going to need some REAL money.

Republicans are going to have a very hard time saying yes.

He might want to do a little work and come up with a budget.

[chouchou]

25. Well, as I was saying, as long as my eggs don't get more expansive, I will be happy

as I was just telling Mildred the other day. those breads are geting expansive agin....she told me that..

[Marthe48]

26. Wish he'd get deported

out of this world

[LonePirate]

27. Say hello to corruption, grifting and theft when they say things such as no price tag.

National security is not the primary motivator for them.

[bucolic_frolic]

29. Proof of Inefficiency, send it to DOGE for elimination

[underpants]

32. "thousands"? Oh Moms AND Dads. Still it's not thousands.

Now apply that “rationale” to gun deaths.

[mdbl]

33. He's Joe McCarthy on steroids

I wonder what his next target group will be.

[LiberalArkie]

35. And then bring in thousands of H1B's to replace the more highly paid American tech workers. Oh, maybe expand

H1B to guys building houses and buildings. They can be paid less than immigrants and fired pretty quick. Easy to keep H1B's in order by just threatening to cancel their contract and deport them if they do not "toe the line" as they usually have no loyalty to the U.S. just to their people back home.

[Dr. T]

36. On Thanksgiving

I responded to my conservative brother, who openly thanked God for America's Christian foundation, as if that were true. I told him that I give thanks to my roofing shingles for keeping me dry and warm and the illegal immigrants who installed them.

[Turbineguy]

37. If you have to ask, you can't afford it.

[PortTack]

41. Even the greedy gqp aren't going to spend 169:million to deport as many ppl as he says he wants to..period

[BradBo]

42. The price will be brocilli 5 times more expensive.

[patphil]

43. Tom Homan - the Trump equivalent of Heinrich Himmler.

The crime rate among illegal immigrants is lower than the crime rate of American citizens.

https://www.reuters.com/fact-check/no-evidence-4000-people-are-killed-yearly-by-undocumented-immigrants-2024-09-27/

That money would be better spent funding law enforcement in general, so we could actually reduce the staggering cost of crime across the United States.

https://news.vanderbilt.edu/2021/02/05/new-research-examines-the-cost-of-crime-in-the-u-s-estimated-to-be-2-6-trillion-in-a-single-year/

Tom Homan talks in billions, but the real impact of crime is in the trillions of dollars each year. Yeah, we need to rein in crime committed by illegal aliens, but there is a whole lot more that can be accomplished by spending that $86 billion on crime in general across America.

[malthaussen]

44. What bullshit. We had enough of that "National Security" crap in the 70s...

... or so I thought.

Much like "patriotism," it's the first refuge of a scoundrel.

-- Mal

[Quanto Magnus]

45. And how much are they going to pocket?

Ooooops! Some money fell into their pockets.....

[h2ebits]

47. Spreading the lies without noting them as pure fiction

Where are the fact checkers on this crap? And why are these people allowed to say these lies without being stopped? The disinformation campaign is outrageous!!!

[LudwigPastorius]

48. The "price tag" is your Social Security and Medicare.

But hey, at least all us folks living under a bridge will be white!

[cstanleytech]

49. Bullshit, this isn't a national emergency and it should be challenged in Court.

[SWBTATTReg]

50. Absolute BS. You're not going to spend a trillion dollars deporting 1000 illegal immigrants vs. $10,000 dollars.

Already have a govt agency that does the job of ID'ing, catching illegal immigrants, and deporting them. When you stupidly do 10s of millions like tRUMP is threatening, who knows how much they'll overspend, literally $billions and $billions of dollars and probably won't get as much done as they want (tRUMP thugs). See his first term's record on deportations. Not that great and I expect that it'll be the same, and if anything, they'll be some pushback from some states that do rely on this labor.

tRUMP will screw it up anyways, no matter what he does, he screws everything up.

[bucolic_frolic]

51. I thought government overreach was tamed at Waco

Republicans didn't like what Janet Reno did. Now they let loose this clown.

[Deuxcents]

52. The sky is the limit when it comes to tearing families apart, he says with a smile

[justsomeguy01]

53. deja vu

Who was the Cheney admin guy that said the war in Iraq would be free ? Was it L. Paul Bremer ? Or was it Wolfowitz ?

Regardless, there is never accountability for those who "bro" for wars or "security", regardless of how obvious it is that they are either lying or are fools.

[Oneear]

54. Fly on the Wall what does Rep. Jason Smith MO8 have to say about this spending idea

Jason Smith is the Chair for House Ways & Means We Need Reliable Clean Drinking Water in Cape Girardeau, MO

[jalan48]

55. Ka-Ching! say the corporations and businesses that will be hired to implement the program.

And no cost overrun limits! Happy days are here again.

[keroro gunsou]

57. good

let the red states fucking foot the bill since they are so gung-fucking-ho about this issue

[Emile]

58. Wouldn't it be cheaper to go after the ones hiring them?

[turbinetree]

59. Would it not be cheaper to ask this immigrant where his parents, parents, parents, parents

came from................JFC

[NowsTheTime]

61. All those Bond Villains Don't Hold a Candle...

[republianmushroom]

63. Tom Homan, this is a fu@king joke, "What price do you put on national security?

I don’t think it has a price tag,”, ask Putin or the Saudis, they can tell you what the cost was and who they bought. The file were stored in the convicted felons bathroom.

47 months and counting. Thank you Merrick the Meek.

Jack Smith 23 days for your report.

[LudwigPastorius]

64. Hey, turns out there IS a price tag!

...and it starts at $86 billion.

https://nypost.com/2024/12/24/us-news/incoming-border-czar-tom-homan-says-trump-admin-will-need-86-billion-to-start-mass-deportations/

Fuck this fucking fuck.

[Initech]

65. Yeah we have no money to keep the government open, but we have money for this bullshit?

Make it make sense. Fuck you Tom Homan. Fuck you to the hottest and fieriest circle of hell.