WASHINGTON—In all my years of covering immigration politics, I’ve never seen this kind of clarity. During a White House press briefing Monday morning, Tom Homan, President Donald Trump’s border czar, had a message to migrants living illegally in the United States: Go home.
If you don’t, he explained, we’ll find you, we’ll prosecute you, and send you to jail, then deport you and never let you back in the country.
Welcome to the Trump era. After the pendulum swung way too far one way, when President Joe Biden invited the world to cross the U.S. border by any means necessary, Trump won office after promising robust border enforcement.
With Trump back in the Oval Office, the pendulum always was bound to swing hard in the other direction.
Asked by a reporter how many illegal immigrants reside in the United States, Homan responded that he believes the number…
