A very long slog indeed.....
Top ICE officials removed as White House ramps up pressure on deportations
The shake-up at ICE comes as the president, and his top immigration officials, are increasingly frustrated with the pace of arrests and deportations
02/11/2025
Two top Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials have been removed from their positions, as the White House ramps up pressure on the agency to increase arrests and deportations to meet President Donald Trump’s promise to deport millions of undocumented immigrants. Russell Hott and Peter Berg, who held top positions in the enforcement division of ICE, will return, respectively, to the agency’s Washington field office and to St. Paul, Minnesota. The changes were first reported by the Washington Post.
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White House Trump Clone and Blowhard Border Czar Tom Homan the career Flatfoot cop from NYC thunders in his typical asshat mode at reporters outside the White House on Feb. 6, 2025. | Evan Vucci/AP
The shake-up at ICE comes as the president, and his top immigration officials, are increasingly frustrated with the current pace of arrests and deportations — as well as the release of some migrants due to lack of detention capacity. ICE has increased arrests in recent weeks, but the Trump administration continues to face a slew of challenges as it tries to move quickly to fulfill the president’s mass deportations promise, an ambitious undertaking that will take funding, time and resources to scale up. "I’m not satisfied. There are more criminal aliens that need to be arrested, hundreds of thousands,” Border Czar Tom Homan said Tuesday. “Sanctuary cities are putting roadblocks up. We’ve got leaks. So we need to increase the arrests of illegal aliens, especially those with criminal convictions. So we’re going to continue.”
Hotair Homan is trying to get the Senate to give him $175 billion for the long term deportation of Trump's target of 11 million immigrants. The American Immigration Council has previously said deporting 1million a year would cost over $88 billion dollars annually for a total of $967.9 billion over more than ten years. The Senate is still thinking about it while the House is not.
Nov. 18th Trump and Homan were still blustering about using the military armed forces to do the deportation from A to Z. There's no way the armed forces are going to go crashing around butsing unarmed civilians in the USA however which is why Trump and Homan have shut up about it. Homan has switched to saying it's up to Congress to provide the huge bucks. Indeed, the armed forces are not doing deportation and neither will the armed forces do Trump's "enemies within." Troops and planes to the border is one thing, troops and vehicles in the streets is a definite NO. This is still the United States of America.
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