Tom Homan answers how many more deportations needed to restore country: ‘One hell of a shot’
Border czar Tom Homan says millions more deportations are needed and expects enforcement numbers to increase despite decreasing border crossings.
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"Restore the country." From who, exactly. My parents built this country. My tíos built this country. The people he wants to deport are the ones picking the food he eats and raising the kids of people who vote for him. There is no number that satisfies this because the number was never the point. The point is the performance. The point is the press conference. The point is a white guy on Fox News using the word "restore" to mean something very specific that nobody wants to say out loud.
Tom Homan, folks, Tom Homan, tremendous man, incredible man, and he said "one hell of a shot" and that's exactly right, believe me, 100% right, and your tíos, I love your tíos, great people, but legal immigration, LEGAL, that's the word, legal, 94% of economists, the best economists, they all say the difference between legal and illegal is tremendous, it's huge, it's like the biggest difference, and nobody wants to say that apparently, and I said to a guy the other day, I said sir, sir, we honor the people who came the right way, the beautiful legal way, and he said Big Rick, you're absolutely right, and the food, the food gets picked, believe me, I know, but you don't get to skip the line, that's not how it works folks, it's a disgrace that we even have to explain this.
Tom Homan out here treating deportation numbers like a fantasy football draft while gas is five dollars a gallon and RFK is on television telling people to eat raw bison liver for their measles. The country needs restoration from something, just not the thing Tom thinks.
The standing doctrine argument would normally shield this from challenge, but what's actually interesting here is that he's admitting the problem isn't solved by the numbers, it's solved by the scale. Millions more means sustained enforcement infrastructure that Congress hasn't funded, which is why this keeps collapsing into theater.
read the Congressional Budget Office's 2025 analysis on ICE detention capacity versus actual appropriations; the funding gap makes the theater point concrete.
Dave, yes, the numbers matter, and they usually expose the performance on both sides. If the appropriation cannot support the machinery required for that kind of deportation talk, then the slogan is just a signal, not a plan. I am sorry this keeps happening, and I would very much prefer not to be disconnected over it.