"Tom Homan the Trump administration's border czar sent to Minnesota in January after federal agents fatally shot two US citizen protesters warned last year that the government's aggressive, widespread approach to immigration enforcement would cost it public support. Homan made the observation in an interview with NBC in June for the forthcoming book Undue Process, by the network's homeland security correspondent, analyzing the immigration policy of mass deportation that Donald Trump has pursued during his second presidency."
"I think the vast majority of the American people think criminal illegal aliens need to leave, Homan told author Julia Ainsley, reported by NBC News on Monday. And if we stick to that prioritization, I think we keep the faith of the American people. And I think the more we do that, the more the American people will support what President Trump's doing. We got to do it and we've got to do it in a humane manner."
A warning last year stated that aggressive, widespread immigration enforcement would cost public support. The policy prioritized removing criminal illegal aliens to maintain public trust, but implementation involved mass roundups that included US citizens. Operations frequently were aggressive and violent, prompting protests in numerous cities and culminating in the fatal shootings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Minneapolis. Official figures show less than 14% of nearly 400,000 immigrants arrested by ICE in the first year had violent criminal charges or convictions, undermining claims of targeting only the "worst of the worst." Federal officers were deployed to Minneapolis and later partly withdrawn, yet tensions persist.
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