Hoover Institution senior fellow Victor Davis Hanson said Thursday that incoming border czar Tom Homan is starting with Democratic Chicago to deport illegal immigrants in order to set a precedent for other cities threatening to block his efforts.
Since President-elect Donald Trump’s nomination of Homan as border czar, the former Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) acting director has warned Democratic mayors to step aside as some have threatened to refuse cooperation with ICE on mass deportations. On “The Victor Davis Hanson Show,” Hanson compared Homan’s focus on Chicago to Voltaire’s reference to British Admiral John Byng’s death, using it as a lesson to others due to being killed by his own troops.
“He says that the British had this peculiar custom that every once in a while they hang an Admiral to encourage the others and he was referring to Admiral…
