𝗥𝗘𝗣𝗥𝗘𝗦𝗘𝗡𝗧𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗩𝗘 𝗠𝗢𝗡𝗜𝗖𝗔 𝗗𝗘 𝗟𝗔 𝗖𝗥𝗨𝗭, (𝗥), 𝗠𝗖𝗔𝗟𝗟𝗘𝗡, 𝗪𝗔𝗡𝗧𝗦 𝗧𝗢 𝗥𝗘𝗜𝗡𝗦𝗧𝗜𝗧𝗨𝗧𝗘 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗕𝗥𝗔𝗖𝗘𝗥𝗢 𝗣𝗥𝗢𝗚𝗥𝗔𝗠

                                       

Rep. Monica De La Cruz, President Donald Trump, Border Czar Tom Homan

During the 2024 campaign, Donald Trump promised to deport as many as 20M undocumented immigrants, quite a feat considering the Pew Research Center found only 11M in our country.  Our forgotten Vice President, J.D. Vance, suggested at the time, "starting with 1M," focusing on the "criminals."

To implement the deportation plan, Trump named the pig-faced former ICE director Tom Homan as "Border Czar," a job Homan recently told Governor Abbott he's performing with "zero tolerance."

“You impede a federal ICE officer, you’re going to jail. You put hands on an officer, you’re going to jail,” Homan warned. “You knowingly harbor and conceal an illegal alien, you’re going to jail... This shit stops now.”

OK.  "Down boy!"

Trump has added a couple other wrinkles to his mass deportation plan; self-deportation and sending migrants to countries other than their own.

Self-deportation hasn't exactly been a rousing success with just 5,000 reportedly taking that route as of April 9.  Those self-deportees saved the U.S. some bucks, though, when you compare the $1,000 "exit bonus" to the $17,100 the Department of Homeland Security claims it cost to actually deport each undocumented immigrant.

Recently, Trump's goons successfully deported 5 migrants to the small south African country of Eswatini in an exercize of unspeakable cruelty, people originally from Vietnam, Jamaica, Laos, Cuba and Yemen.  

Earlier this month, the U.S. also deported eight men to South Sudan. They were held in a shipping container for six weeks on a U.S. military base. Homan said they had arrived, but he didn’t know if they were still locked up.

                        

White South Africans Trump did allow to emigrate

In the interest of honest reporting, we have to admit that the Trump administration did actually allow a contingent from South Africa to emigrate back in February, but, of course, they were white.

While Trump and Homan worship at the Church of Mass Deportation, a local politico, Brownsville native Rep. Monica De La Cruz, serving the 15th Congressional District, a narrow strip of land from McAllen to past San Antonio, wants to restart the ancient Bracero Program, the old guest worker scheme from the 40's that paid immigrants 30 cents per hour. 

                                          

15th Congressional District, U.S. House of Representatives

The original Bracero Program may have filled jobs, but it also racked up a legacy of exploitation. Critics fear version 2.0 could just be history repeating, this time with Blue Tooth.

De La Cruz insists her approach is different: faster applications, 10,000 "portable" one-year visas, slightly higher wages, and more job-switching freedom.  

Fans say it’s a smart fix for a farm labor crisis. Skeptics see a shiny new way to underpay workers, dodge enforcement, and undercut domestic labor, sort of business as usual, just rebranded.

What an unsubtle irony: Trump promises to deport millions that don't exist, ICE agents talking and acting tough and a local congresswoman wants to restart the Bracero Program so tomatoes don't rot in the field.