Two of Trump’s recent staff picks are the architects of the worst of his first administration's border policies, including family separations and concentration camps. Tom Homan has been appointed Trump's “border czar,” a newly invented position that reports directly to the president. In Homan's current job, as the Border Chronicle recently reported, he actually gets paid to lie about immigration. Now, he will receive taxpayer dollars to act on those lies.
Meanwhile, Stephen Miller has been appointed deputy chief of staff. Miller has been Trump's top immigration advisor. One colleague quoted by Rolling Stone said Miller has no problem with talking about detention “camps” for immigrants.
The Rolling Stone article tells the story of other Trump allies objecting to the use of the word “camps” in the description of their mass deportation plans. One Trump ally said, “Apparently some people think it makes us look like Nazis.” We wonder why…eyeroll