illegals must go, tom homan, the incoming border czar, has declaredand he and president-elect trump mean that literally. critics have a pat response: it is not physically or financially possible to implement the largest deportation program in our history. but theyre missing a critical tool: the ability of the entire executive branch to create conditions that will help induce self-deportation by many aliens. trump and homan have already indicated that theyre going to focus the department of homeland securitys resources on the worst-of-the-worst, in what we can call a catch-and-deport program, in contrast to the catch-and-release-or-dont-even-bo ther-to-catch program of the past four years. their top priority is aliens who pose national security threats, as well as the murderers, rapists, burglars, arsonists, thieves, gang members and other criminals that president biden and secretary of homeland security alejandro mayorkas have allowed to freely roam throughout the nation. but many other illegal aliens can and should be removed by dhs. as a former immigration judge told me, just enforcing the estimated 1.3 million final-removal orders issued by immigration judges that have been piling up at the department of homeland securitysitting there ignored by the current administrationwould make a significant dent in the illegal alien population.
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