ACLU executive director vows to help defy mass deportation of illegals, has no interest in protecting liberty of American citizens

WASHINGTON, DC - The incoming Trump administration has promised to conduct “the largest mass deportation effort in American history.” That operation is scheduled to begin shortly after President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration on January 20, 2025. Not everyone is happy about that prospect, including the radical far-left American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). 

According to Headline USA, the ACLU claims to have a plan for advising cities and states to defy the federal government and federal law by refusing to cooperate with federal immigration authorities. The ACLU appears only to consider the interests of illegal aliens, not the liberty interests of American citizens. 

Anthony Romero, executive director of the ACLU, told MSNBC radical leftist and devout anti-Trumper Rachel Maddow of the group’s plan to put up a roadblock to the mass deportation of illegal aliens who have entered the country primarily under the Biden administration, with some estimates showing that number is over twelve million. 

“We have this whole plan around the firewall for freedom…the idea that these local officials can really play an important role in stopping the guardrail abuses,” Romero said. 

In describing how the plan would work, Romero admitted that the Trump administration is legally permitted to conduct its mass deportation efforts. 

“For instance, when they’re going to try and detain and deport all these hundreds of thousands, up to a million [very low estimate] people,” Romero said. “That’s an operation that they have the legal power to do, to do the raids.” 

Romero then warned that such an effort would be difficult due to the large amount of illegal aliens in the country. 

‘But the logistics, they’re going to need mayors and governors or city councils to give them access to police officers or not, jails, where are you going to house all of these folks?” he said. 

Romero then went totally off the rails, suggesting that illegal aliens be pardoned so they don’t have to leave the country. That would not be out of the question given Joe Biden’s sudden fascination with pardons, especially since he now has nothing to lose. 

Short of pardons, Romero told Maddow cities and states should make it difficult for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents to do their job. 

“They should sever these relationships that they have with the federal government or immigration enforcement,” he added. 

That actually sounds like a good idea. If cities and states “sever their relationship” with the federal government, the federal government should reciprocate, i.e., cut off federal funding to these cities and states. After all, what’s good for the goose…

Trump’s incoming border czar, Tom Homan, has said that if cities and states wish to block the federal government from defending its border, he will have no problem arresting anyone who stands in the way. For example, the mayor of Denver, Mike Johnston, has said he will defy any efforts the Trump administration makes to deport illegal aliens who live in his city up to the point of risking arrest. 

To that, Homan has no issues carrying out the job he is being hired for. 

“But, look, me and the Denver mayor, we agree on one thing,” Homan said. “He’s willing to go to jail, I’m willing to put him in jail.”