By Daily Mail (U.S.) | Created at 2025-01-12 15:09:48 | Updated at 2025-01-12 19:11:22
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Donald Trump plans to get aggressive on illegal immigration starting on Day One of his second term, and Latino Americans could be critical to helping him in that effort.
Trump's incoming 'border czar' Tom Homan made it clear that he will take a much more proactive approach to the role than his predecessor, Vice President Kamala Harris.
And one man, Latino Wall Street CEO Tony Delgado, talked about his group's central role to those efforts and how Latino Americans are flocking to support Trump.
A lifelong Democrat, Delgado was helping run Hispanics for Kennedy in Robert F. Kennedy's White House bid last year. He then switched over to Trump's camp when Kennedy endorsed the now-president-elect.
Delgado told DailyMail.com that he participated in an intimate roundtable with Homan in Florida this month.
He revealed how Homan detailed his focus on quelling the illegal immigration and human and fentanyl trafficking crisis at the U.S. borders.
Delgado believes that Trump will bring the security and safety that Latinos who came through legal channels to the U.S. want to see.
Delgado believes that Trump will bring the security and safety that legal immigrants want to see
Tony Delgado of Latino Wall Street claims Democrats have been gaslighting Americans into thinking open borders won't let cartels take over U.S. cities – but says legal immigrants who fled the cartels know better. Pictured: Delgado with incoming Trump border czar Tom Homan
Delgado said Democrats are 'gaslighting' Americans into thinking a flow of migration over the southern border won't bring harm to the U.S.
But he claims Latinos who left Central and South American cities run by cartels aren't fooled and see the writing on the wall of sanctuary cities becoming like the cities from which they originally fled.
'A lot of them came here for opportunity, a lot of them came here to escape crime,' Delgado said of those who legally emigrated from their countries and are now American citizens.
'You know, you can gaslight unsuspecting other American citizens who have never been to Latin America and pretend like the cartels aren't real,' he said of Democrats' strategy to keep the borders open.
'We know the cartels are real. We know the crime is real in our countries. That's why we've left in many cases. So we know the dangers of the cartels and the criminal elements.'
Because these Latino Americans understand the dangers of the cartels and their crime rings, they can be helpful to spread the word on why tough policies are necessary, he says.
Homan plans to hit the ground running with three top priorities, Delgado revealed.
The first is to close the border and criminalize illegal crossings between ports of entry.
Individuals crossing between ports and claiming asylum when they are captured or otherwise evading authorities is what has led to the largest influx of undocumented migrants living in the U.S. in the last four years under President Joe Biden.
Homan that another priority will be overseeing the 'largest mass deportation effort in U.S. history' that Trump promised during his 2024 reelection campaign.
Homan is helping lead the massive efforts by Trump to lead the largest mass deportation effort in U.S. history once he takes office later this month
Tony Delgado's wife Gabriela Berrospi founded Latino Wall Street. The couple are spearheading efforts to increase support among the Latino American community to support Trump in his second term
Delgado detailed how Homan is currently building relationships with mayors and governors, as well as jails and prisons across the country, to get in place a system for having them help with deportation.
He said Homan has already established a good relationship with New York City's Democratic Mayor Eric Adams, who is looking to more directly address the illegal immigrant crisis in his city.
Homan said a priority for deportations is going to be looking at prisons and jails were undocumented immigrants are being held already.
He wants these jails to do a lot of the 'leg work' to get started on the deportation efforts.
Delgado's father was actually in prison until just recently. He detailed how he grew up without a father because he was sentenced to life in prison as a nonviolent drug offender who Delgado claims was a victim of the super stringent punishments for drugs during the 'war on drugs.'
'Trump's first step act frees my father,' Delgado explained. 'So Trump, in 2018 does the first step act, my dad applies for it, and my dad gets out six months before the election.'
Delgado's dad flew to Palm Beach, Florida, right after getting out of prison and had him attend an event with RFK Jr.
Delgado and his father, who grew up between New York City and Puerto Rico, pose with a Puerto Rican flag after Democrats slammed Trump for featuring a comedian at a rally that called the U.S. territory 'garbage'
Guatemalan migrants deported from the United States
Finally, the third top priority for the Trump administration is to 'find the kids,' according to Delgado.
He said there are approximately 400,000 children that were lost at the border, and that Homan wants to find where these children went.
Many are victims of sex trafficking, while others are just unaccounted for because migrants or other people in the U.S. were able to claim the kids without showing proof of relations.
Delgado is the CEO of Latino Wall Street, a Spanish-language group that his wife Gabriela Berrospi founded to help bring financial education to Latino people in America. Specifically the group aims to help Latino Americans succeed in business or reach economic prosperity.
