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Happy Wednesday, dear Kruiser Morning Briefing friends. Pay no attention to the constable's ravings about a "delicately tattooed albino ostrich" that's been milling about.
When private citizen Donald Trump kicked off his first campaign for the presidency back in 2015, it was his tough talk regarding illegal immigrants that appealed most voters. For far too long, American politicians had been clinging to and pimping a narrative about all illegal aliens being sweet people who merely wanted to work hard and send money back home.
If one pointed out that a lot of bad people flow across that open border, one would have been called a "racist." As the Democrats learned years ago, that's usually enough to send Republican legislators in Washington rushing for their emotional support blankies. When Trump came down that golden escalator and told the truth about what Mexico is really exporting to the United States, his message resonated with a lot of Americans.
As part of the Trump transformation of the party, Republican politicians no longer pussyfoot around the real problems with open borders. It's OK to call the people who traffic drugs and humans and kill people the bad guys. Yes, it's a departure from the Mitt "The Squish" Romney days, but most of the Beltway Republicans seem to be adjusting well.
The invasion of our southern border was, as most here know, my most important issue in the last election. Since I've only lived in border states, it's usually at the top of my list. The hellish mess that the Biden administration created made it an even bigger priority. Everything that Trump says about illegal aliens that makes the Left recoil in horror is greeted by me with audible cheers.
I wrote during the transition period that I was eager for Tom Homan to get to work as Trump's border czar. While making the media rounds in November and December, Homan wasn't the slightest bit apologetic to hostile "reporters" who tried to portray him as one of history's greatest monsters. It was immediately obvious that Homan was the perfect point man to carry out President Trump's ambitious clean-up project.
As with everything that's happened since Trump was sworn in last week, his working partnership with Homan is proceeding just splendidly. Matt wrote yesterday about the numbers after one week of grown-up border policy:
In just his first week back in office, President Trump's Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) isn't wasting any time getting to work, and ICE is crazy transparent about its success.
Since Trump’s third day in office, ICE and the Department of Homeland Security have been posting daily updates on immigration enforcement, like these:
Here's the most recent update from the ICE X account that Matt covers in his post:
— U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (@ICEgov) January 28, 2025
That's a pretty busy Tuesday. These updates that ICE posts every day have some staggering numbers. It's distressing to think that, despite the successful first week, ICE hasn't yet begun to even scratch the surface of the nightmare bequeathed to it by Joe Biden. It's a daunting task, to be sure, but Trump and Homan certainly seem up to the task.
It's so refreshing to see the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents being allowed to do their real jobs again. The fact that the Biden administration hamstrung them so severely while taunting them with open borders is yet another example of the Democrats' hatred for all law enforcement.
Freshly minted Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem hit the ground running with her new job and joined some ICE raids, which my Townhall colleague Sarah Arnold wrote about here. It's pretty safe to say that the administration's enthusiasm for helping Trump implement his agenda is strong.
Some very dangerous people have been taken off of the streets That's worth all of the names they want to call us for supporting the introduction of sanity to American border policy.
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