Open-borders advocates and their illegal-alien clients are trembling with fear about what happens on President-elect Donald Trump’s first day in office.
Starting on Day 1, Trump will almost certainly begin reversing President Joe Biden’s myriad unlawful orders to open the borders.
And while some municipalities promise legal war and insurrection and rebellion should Trump order mass deportations, Texas vows to help the 47th president keep his promise. Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham says the state will set aside at least 1,400 acres for federal detention and deportation facilities.
After that initial offer of acreage, Buckingham said the Lone Star State has 13 million acres available for Trump, who promised the “largest deportation operation in American history.”
What Trump Will Do
Leftist Politico summarized what Trump will likely do in first 100 days in office.
Deportations will increase, and whatever the “logistical problems” of deporting millions of illegals and other Biden “migrants,” Team Trump has said “they would prioritize people with criminal convictions and final removal orders for deportation.”
Of course, Politico found the usual suspects to claim even deporting those rapists, murderers, and other criminals was nearly impossible:
In 2022, according to the pro-immigration American Immigration Council, about 1.19 million people had those orders — meaning their cases had worked their way through immigration court and judges decided they must leave. Just removing the people in that category could take years.
Finding, detaining and removing those people would be resource-intensive, said John Sandweg, acting director of ICE from 2013 to 2014. Detention capacity alone would be a costly and immediate challenge. Lawmakers need to appropriate the funding, and even if they do, the administration would need to hire, vet and train more officers — no easy feat.
ICE currently employs 7,000 officers who conduct 250,000 deportations a year, according to the agency. If Trump’s administration wanted to quadruple this number, as Trump has promised, training academies couldn’t handle a deluge of new hires.
“It is just a resource game, but it’s a hard game to play,” Sandweg said.
Trump will end Biden’s unlawful program to import 360,000 Cuban Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans annually. “As of August, nearly 530,000 Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans had traveled to the U.S. via the program and were granted permission to live and work in the U.S. for two years,” the website reported. Biden flew the penniless vagabonds directly into the country.
Trump has also vowed to end Temporary Protected Status for Haitians, the website continued.
“All that stuff is going to end very fast, almost immediately,” Dan Stein of the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) told the website.
Good news is, Stein’s group and others are likely providing personnel for the incoming administration. When Trump was elected in 2016, he told the website, “they basically hired half our staff.”
Also on the chopping block is Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas’ “Guidelines for the Enforcement of Civil Immigration Laws,” released on September 30, 2021.
In that unlawful order, Mayorkas unilaterally rewrote the nation’s immigration laws. He stopped the deportation of illegals simply because they jumped the border, and even stopped the deportation of dangerous illegal-alien criminals on the basis of a conviction.
Article 1 of the House impeachment of Mayorkas noted that the Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Mayorkas created “a general policy that is so extreme as to amount to an abdication of … statutory responsibilities.” The policy replaced ”Congress’s statutory mandates” and is ”extralegal … [and] plainly outside the bounds of the power conferred by the INA,” the court ruled.
Trump will terminate the unlawful smartphone application called CBP One Mobile. It permits would-be illegal aliens to apply for entry to the country while still at home.
Trump will likely restore his Remain in Mexico policy to keep illegals across the border while the courts hear their asylum applications. As The New American has repeatedly reported, 90 percent of asylum claims are bogus, and so-called asylees come to the United States for jobs and free stuff. A study from UCLA found that 99 percent of asylum claims are bogus.
Texas Is Ready to Help
Good thing is, while two mayors have promised rebellion and insurrection to stop mass deportations, Texas will help the president enforce the law.
In a letter to Trump on November 19, Land Commissioner Buckingham told Trump that federal authorities are welcome to 1,400 acres in Starr County, which borders Mexico.
“As Texas Land Commissioner, I recently acquired this 1,402-acre ranch along the border near Rio Grande City,” Buckingham wrote:
In less than 24 hours after the purchase on October 23, 2024, I granted a 7,681-foot- long (1.45-mile) easement across the property, allowing our Texas Border Wall to be built. The previous owner had refused to allow the wall to be built and actively blocked law enforcement from accessing the property. Her actions enabled cartel members and violent criminals to sexually abuse migrant women and children on this land for some time.
After that, Buckingham told the Texas Tribune that more than 10 million acres are available for Trump’s deportation operation.
“We have 13 million acres around the state, and if there’s something that meets the federal government’s needs, we want them to be able to utilize that,” Buckingham said:
The new project is called “Jocelyn’s Initiative” after Jocelyn Nungaray, a 12-year-old girl from Houston who police say was killed by two Venezuelan men who were in the country illegally. Jocelyn’s mother and grandmother, Alexis and Jackie, joined Buckingham to announce the initiative during a news conference Tuesday held on the 1,402-acre ranch she offered to Trump last week to build a deportation facility and where the state is currently constructing a border wall.
The two illegals charged with Nungaray’s brutal murder were caught and released at the southwest border.
Other Americans aren’t so loyal.
Denver, Colorado, Mayor Mike Johnston has vowed to use city police and “50,000 residents” to block federal immigration authorities from deporting illegals. The mayor of Frederick, Maryland, Michael O’Connor, says the city will use tax money for illegals to hire lawyers to stop deportations. So also has Anne Arundel County Executive Steuart Pittman.
Harboring illegal aliens is a federal felony.
Under a strict reading of federal law, Johnston is advocating rebellion and insurrection.
