Victor Davis Hanson, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, said Thursday that incoming border czar Tom Homan will join Democratic Chicago in deporting illegal immigrants to set a precedent for other cities threatening to block his efforts. He said that he is starting on the project.

Since President-elect Donald Trump nominated Homan as border czar, the former acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has defended himself against Democratic mayors who have threatened to refuse to cooperate with ICE on mass deportations. He warned me to back off. On “The Victor Davis Hanson Show,” Hanson compared Homan’s focus on Chicago to Voltaire’s. reference He used the death of British Admiral John Byng, killed by his own troops, as a lesson to others.

“He said that the British had a strange habit of hanging admirals from time to time to encourage others, and he was referring to Admiral Byng of about 1750 or 1760. He was a fat, status quo, functional, talentless person”, but is part of the nomenclature of the British aristocracy. “The British didn’t do well with his squadron,” Hanson said.

“I think it was in Menorca that they lost. He was unable to protect the garrison of Menorca from the French,” Hanson added. “So they decided to put him on trial, even though they hadn’t done anything like this recently, and as I remember, they didn’t hang him. shot him. He just said, “Why are you shooting me?” I’m just a retired 50-something fat corporate admiral like everyone else. ” So Voltaire was very resourceful and basically said, sometimes you have to show something. ”

Mr. Hanson asserted Mr. Homan’s claim. concentration Democratic Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson is setting a precedent and emphasizing that the next border czar is listening to Democratic voters concerned about illegal immigration into the city. (Related: Tom Homan tells Tucker Carlson he had a ‘fall out’ with Biden’s Homeland Security secretary)

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“So what Homan is doing is thinking, ‘Oh my God, who’s Admiral Byng in all these 600 jurisdictions that I have to encourage you?’ Second or third. “I know that one of the most disgusting, craziest, most pro-nullifying cities in the world is Chicago, with that crazy Mayor Johnson,” Hanson continued. “So we’re going to tell him first, are you trying to stop the federal government and think you’re South Carolina in 1832, or are you firing at Fort Sumner? You will regret breaking federal laws, because there are far more federal laws that we want you to follow for your benefit than there are federal laws that you should break. .”

“This is going to be interesting, because what Homan is doing is basically talking over the mayor’s head to Chicago’s black constituencies and saying, ‘Don’t worry, your mayor won’t do that. I won’t, he’s gonna break the law, but I’ll go It’s like saying, ‘I’m going to do that.'” If you follow that, you’ll have him for your benefit so you don’t have to worry about Venezuelans or Colombians shooting you or taking over your social services. I’ll put you in jail,” Hanson added.

Mr. Homan invited Mr. Johnson and Gov. JB Pritzker to support the deportation plan during a holiday party in Chicago last week, but Mr. Johnson has not yet responded.

In addition to the Chicago mayor, Democratic Tucson Mayor Regina Romero and Denver Mayor Mike Johnston have also vowed to oppose the plan, with Johnston claiming that the city’s police and residents will not cooperate with the project. I am doing it. Homan has since warned mayors who try to push back in an “outright exclusion”, saying there will be “consequences for those who try to break the law and disrupt our work.”

In a FOX interview Wednesday evening, Chicago resident Vashon Tankle said: begged Along with Homan, he supported the city in “The Ingraham Angle,” highlighting how illegal immigration is impacting the area.

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