Leader-Chivee: Tom Homan Sees All Illegal Immigrants as Criminals

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LEADER-CHIVEE: “First of all, we don’t know the extent to which governors and state law enforcement will or will not participate. I think that’s going to depend a lot on what they’re being asked to do. I think Democratic governors are in a really complicated position because on the one hand they certainly don’t — most of them certainly would not agree with family separations, on the other hand they’re also under pressure from their own constituents around safety and crime, so I think where there are truly targeted deportations on folks who are, in fact, criminals, but that’s not what Tom Homan is saying. I think that’s what makes it so disturbing, is that they see anyone who has entered the country as having committed a crime, and I think most Americans don’t see it that way. We have families who have been here for decades, who are law-abiding, tax-paying non-citizens who have citizen children. I think the reality of this — and also, frankly, what it could do to the American economy if you consider what this would do to the labor force, we already saw huge disruptions in Florida and in other states where they’ve done intensive raids on undocumented communities who've largely had jobs that Americans don't fill.”