Donald Trump has won the 2024 presidential election sweeping all seven swing states and the “blue wall.” With this win, Trump has promised action to be taken in his second term to get the country back on track. With his return to the White House imminent, there are many reasons to believe that Trump will make this country safe and lead it to flourish again. With his plan for national security, rebuilding the economy and restoring national pride to this country, Trump’s second term could bring in a new era of opportunity for many people in the United States.
National security could be argued as the top priority for Trump and probably the main reason he’s won this election. From the beginning of his 2016 campaign phrase “Build the Wall,” Trump has promised the largest mass deportation of illegal immigrants in country history.
Not even a week after securing his second term, Trump named former U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director, Thomas Homan the "border czar.” He will be in charge of the mass deportations that Trump promised throughout his 2024 campaign.
“I am pleased to announce that the Former ICE Director, and stalwart on Border Control, Tom Homan, will be joining the Trump Administration, in charge of our Nation’s Borders,” Trump said on Truth Social.
For those who don’t know Thomas Homan, he is a former police officer, immigration official and political commentator. He has been known to be a strong advocate for a more aggressive approach to immigration enforcement. During the first Trump administration, he served as Director of ICE from Jan. 30, 2017 to June 29, 2018. He was a strong advocate for deportation of illegal immigrants to protect national security and opposed sanctuary city policies.
In a viral video from 2019 when Homan testified before the House Oversight Committee, he recounted an experience which motivated him to become tough on immigration.
“So I get there, I’m walking around in the back of a tractor-trailer with 19 dead aliens at my feet, including a five-year-old little boy who suffocated in the back of that tractor-trailer. And I had a five year old at the time,” Homan testified. “I didn’t sleep for three days”
Another major topic that helped Trump’s re-election is his economic plan.
During the first 3 years of his presidency, the US economy grew, inflation was around 2%, over 6 million jobs were created and unemployment rate fell to 3.5%. However, because of the COVID-19 pandemic, there was a rise in unemployment and inflation due to the national mandates put in by Dr. Anthony Fauci and the CDC. The way his first 3 years were looking, his fourth and final year was on the same path and could have been even better.
Now for his second term, Trump is going to cut corporation taxes for companies from 21% to 15%. This is part of his “America First” agenda to prevent U.S. companies outsourcing production overseas and persuade foreign companies and manufacturers to move to the U.S. Trump has also aimed to help working and middle class Americans by exempting earned tips, social security wages and overtime wages from income taxes.
Whether you voted for Trump or Harris, now is a time where all Americans must come together for the betterment of our nation. Both candidates represent different visions for the country's future, and regardless of who you support, we must respect the results and work toward a more unified nation.
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