Victor Davis Hanson Explains Why He Thinks Tom Homan Is Targeting Major Dem City First For Deportations

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 Byng somewhere around 1750 or 60.  He was kind of a corpulent, status quo, functionary, talentless, but part of the nomenclature of the British aristocracy. The British did not perform well on his squadron,” Hanson said.

“I think it was in Minorca where they lost. He couldn’t defend the garrison in Minorca against the French,” Hanson added. “So they decided to try him even though they had never done this recently and they didn’t hang him as I remember. They shot him. He was kind of just, ‘Why are you shooting me? I’m just a retiring 50-something and corporate fat Admiral like the rest of you.’ So Voltaire being very witty said, basically every once in a while you’ve got to show something.”