Donald Trump’s border czar Tom Homan and Tucker Carlson have suggested a slew of ‘rich, white, liberal neighborhoods’ where illegal migrants could be sent.
Homan, 63, the former acting head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement during Trump’s first term, has already laid out his plans to remove migrants who illegally crossed the southern border.
Carlson asked Homan on his X show Wednesday night: ‘Is there anyway to move millions of Haitians into rich, white, liberal, neighborhoods?’
Homan laughed but Carlson made it clear he wasn’t joking, saying ‘I mean it’ – before explaining the logic behind the move.
‘The people who did this are rich, white liberals in the United States who hate themselves and the country and to punish it, they invited all these people illegally from failed countries but they can’t stand the idea of living near these people because they’re racist,’ Carlson said.
He then suggested the exact neighborhoods he wanted to put the migrants in.
‘Why wouldn’t you move every Haitian to Bethesda and Brookline and Aspen and Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket, like today, can we do that? I will donate money if we do that.’
Martha’s Vineyard, in particular, was one of the many liberal enclaves migrants were sent via bus by Republican governors in an attempt to ease the burden of their arrival on their states, a point Homan celebrated.
Homan said: ‘We absolutely could do it. Martha’s Vineyard did it!’
He then revealed that the president-elect actually was the first person to come up with the busing idea.
Carlson gleefully responded: ‘They called the cops immediately, because they’re racist.’
He said he wanted to give Homan ‘a list of zip codes’ where the likes of Secretary of State Antony Blinken or Senator Bernie Sanders live to send the migrants.
The border czar then especially celebrated Texas Governor Greg Abbott, whom he said did ‘more to secure the border than anybody in [the Biden Administration].’
Homan also praised Florida Governor Ron DeSantis for doing ‘the same.’
‘They need to be moved into the neighborhoods of the people who are calling you racist for wanting laws and borders,’ Carlson said. ‘They need to feel the effects of their own destruction.’
Homan said that the ‘invasion’ at the border amounted to at least 10.5 million illegal migrants ‘encountered’ with over two million having gotten away.
‘That’s by design, that’s not mismanagement,’ claimed Homan, who called Joe Biden the first president to ‘unsecure’ the border.’
He suggested that Democrats like Biden ‘see a future political benefit’ in opening up the border, saying they see ‘future Democrat voters.’
The plan is for Biden’s policies to be undone by Trump to re-secure the border and ‘finish the job.’
Homan also says there will be an investigation under Trump into NGOs, including the United Nations, into their ‘complicit’ role in the migration patterns.
He also accused Biden of being a puppet in office: ‘Do I think Joe Biden had the expertise to do it? No. I think someone is pulling his strings. People need to be investigated, they need to be held accountable.’
Trump announced after he won a second term that Homan would serve as ‘border czar’ to oversee the largest deportation of immigrants in US history.
The president elect, 78, said on Truth Social that Homan would oversee the country’s borders in the incoming administration just days after his landslide victory against Vice President Kamala Harris.
‘I am pleased to announce that the Former ICE Director, and stalwart on Border Control, Tom Homan, will be joining the Trump Administration, in charge of our Nation’s Borders (“The Border Czar”),’ Trump posted on his social network Truth Social.
‘I’ve known Tom for a long time, and there is nobody better at policing and controlling our Borders.’
It comes after Homan said that Trump will use the US Army to round up and deport ‘the worst of the worst’ illegal migrants in an unparalleled crackdown.
Migrants who have committed crimes while in the United States will be the first to be targeted – followed by legal migrants, including asylum seekers and those who entered the US with humanitarian parole under the Biden Administration.
Homan said on Monday he would work on verifying the status of asylum seekers and arrest anyone who is found to be harboring criminal migrants.
He also reiterated that there is no plan in place to separate families, though he suggested ‘it may happen.
‘My goal is to enforce the law, but if you put yourself in that position, it may happen,’ the incoming border czar said. ‘But there’s no plan in this administration right now to separate families.’
‘However, we’re going to enforce the law. So if you put yourself in that position it’s on you,’ he said, declaring that parents of Dreamers – the children of migrants born in the United States – have two options.
‘You can either take a child home with your or they just stay here,’ Homan said. ‘But you don’t get a pass.’
He also said those who do not qualify for asylum through the courts system would be ordered to be deported.
‘If we don’t, what the hell are we doing? Shut down immigration court?’ he asked, rhetorically.
‘There’s no more consequences. We have to remove them if the law requires.’
Homan then criticized media coverage of Trump’s deportation plan and denied that it was racist.
‘We know exactly who we’re going to arrest,’ he claimed. ‘We know most likely where we’re going to find them. We know a lot about them because of investigative case files.
‘So it’s not a sweep, it’s not an uncontrolled operation. It’s a very targeted operation.’
Homan, who was head of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) during Trump’s first stint in the White House, has said he would revive the president elect’s ‘remain in Mexico’ program, in which Mexicans would have their asylum applications processed on their side of the border.
He also promised to close the southern border and build a wall – another flagship Trump pledge.
But the former immigration chief dismissed any suggestion that concentration camps could be used to hold migrants rounded up in the deportation program.
Instead he said he would explore possible arrangements for asylum seekers to be processed in third countries – in an echo of the Rwanda scheme previously touted under Britain before being ditched by Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s Labour government.
Newly built holding centers could be built in the US alongside a larger role for the military in transporting refugees, the Times reported.
‘It’s going to be a lot different to what the liberal media is saying it’s going to be’, Mr Homan said.
Trump said Homan will be in charge of ‘all Deportation of Illegal Aliens back to their Country of Origin.’
Homan appeared at the Republican National Convention in July, telling supporters: ‘I got a message to the millions of illegal immigrants that Joe Biden’s released in our country: You better start packing now.’
Trump has vowed to tackle migrant gangs using the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 – which allows the federal government to round up and deport foreigners belonging to enemy countries – as part of a mass deportation drive he christened ‘Operation Aurora.’
Aurora was the scene of a viral video showing armed Latinos rampaging through an apartment block that spurred sweeping, false narratives about the town being terrorized by Latin American migrants.