During the entire 2024 presidential campaign, candidate and now President-elect Donald Trump made no bones about his plans for people illegally in the United States: He pledged to deport them, troublemakers first, and to that end, he has named Tom “The Hammer” Homan as the new “border czar” to replace Kamala Harris, who was more of a “border no-show.”
This plan met with resistance from Democrats, of course. In the latest example of such resistance, the outgoing Biden administration is mulling over throwing some roadblocks at the incoming administration’s deportation plans.
The Biden administration is considering extending protections for hundreds of thousands of immigrants whose status in the United States is set to expire in the first months of the Trump administration, according to U.S. officials and documents viewed by The New York Times.
The move would…