These are all trial balloons, of course. I hope they're just posturing, and that we're going to get people in the vein of John Ashcroft --- wrong (very wrong), but within normal parameters.
So if he wishes to appease his electorate, this better not be mere posturing, and he absolutely should select Arpaio, a man eminently qualified to preside over the operations of ICE and other DHS functions.
Joe Arpaio was forced to pay a local resident $1.6MM for staging an assassination plot against himself.
You don't understand the complaint I'm making. I have a complaint that transcends policy. I disagree strongly with the immigration position Trump has taken. But I expected to disagree with the next administration, which was almost inevitably going to be Republican.
I can live with disagreement.
How can you live with this level of incompetence?
It's like the stupid Trump wall. Do you think I have some great moral problem with a border wall? Why would I? I have compassion for people who have lived in this country all their lives after having brought here as children, and would be upset to see them deported --- pointlessly, to no benefit for the US. But making it harder for people to come here unlawfully? Why would I care?
The problem with the wall isn't that it's immoral. It's that it's fucking idiotic. It's one of the largest land borders in the world, bracketed by two different maritime borders with the same country. It will be ludicrously expensive and solve virtually no problems, including unlawful immigration. It is an utterly incompetent policy solution to the problem it purports to solve, and yet here we go, ready to shovel an avalanche of money into the least useful most expensive public works project conceived of in the last 50 years.
