Trump Border Czar Reveals Chilling Plan to Make Anti-ICE Protesters ‘Famous’ | EUROtoday

Tom Homan, Donald Trump’s “border czar,” mentioned Thursday that he’s pushing to create a database that might publicly identify and disgrace individuals protesting the administration’s anti-immigration enforcement push.

Speaking to Laura Ingraham on Fox News, Homan acknowledged that they “have that right.” But he then warned that each one bets can be off “when you cross a line, and we’ve proven it.”

Homan mentioned, “If you interfere or impede or assault an ICE officer, you will be prosecuted and one thing I’m pushing for now, Laura, we’re going to create a database.”

He continued, “Those people that are arrested for interference or impeding, assault, we’re going to make them famous. We’re going to put their face on TV. We’re going to let their employers and their neighborhoods and their schools know who these people are.”

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Homan went on to invest — with out providing proof — that many protesters had been mendacity to their employers.

“A lot of these people, they say they’re taking time off work to protest. I bet you a lot of them are calling in sick. I bet you a lot of their employers don’t know what they are doing,” he claimed.

“But we’re going to make sure everybody knows who they are,” Homan added. “We’re going to broadcast every one of these people we arrest.”

Critics on social media blasted the proposal as authoritarian, warning it will undermine due course of (as a result of Homan twice mentioned they might be shamed following their arrest, not conviction) and chill free speech.

Others argued that if protesters are publicly recognized and punished, then ICE brokers ought to be topic to the identical scrutiny, predicting the plan would in the end backfire.