Six months after the assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, conservative leaders are taking their message directly back to college campuses. Turning Point USA has announced a new nationwide campus series called the “This Is the Turning Point Tour,” with Baylor University scheduled as one of the stops on April 22. The event will feature Donald Trump Jr., Border Czar Tom Homan, and commentator Benny Johnson speaking to students about free speech, immigration policy, and the future of the conservative movement. Organizers say the tour is meant to honor Kirk’s legacy and continue what they describe as his mission of defending open debate on American college campuses.
Immigration enforcement remains one of the biggest domestic stories this week as the Trump administration continues expanding deportations and federal operations across the country. Border czar Tom Homan says recent immigration raids are only the beginning of a broader strategy that could expand into sanctuary cities, while new federal funding and enforcement operations are increasing the scale of deportations and detention nationwide.
The Trump administration’s immigration enforcement strategy continues to take shape, and Tom Homan is making it clear the crackdown is not slowing down.
Homan, who serves as President Donald Trump’s border czar, recently announced the end of the large federal immigration surge in Minnesota known as Operation Metro Surge. The deployment brought thousands of federal officers to the Minneapolis area as part of a sweeping immigration crackdown.
But Homan emphasized that the end of that operation does not mean enforcement is stopping. In remarks about the broader strategy, he said the administration still intends to follow through on Trump’s deportation agenda.
“President Trump made a promise of mass deportation, and that’s what this country is going to get,” Homan said when discussing the operation and future enforcement.
More than 4,000 migrants were arrested during the Minnesota operation alone, many of them identified by federal officials as criminal offenders with prior convictions.
The administration has described the operation as a major success and part of a larger effort to dismantle criminal networks and remove migrants with final deportation orders.
Even as federal agents leave Minnesota, Homan has suggested that similar enforcement surges could appear in other cities.
He has indicated that federal immigration agents may be deployed in sanctuary cities depending on how local governments cooperate with federal authorities. In recent interviews, Homan said enforcement resources could be shifted to cities where officials refuse to work with federal immigration agencies.
That possibility has already triggered tension between federal officials and several state governments.
Last week, New York Governor Kathy Hochul met directly with Homan and warned against expanding immigration detention facilities in the state as the federal crackdown grows.
The meeting highlights how immigration enforcement is increasingly moving beyond the border and into the center of state and local political battles.
Funding and manpower expanding enforcement
The federal government is also dramatically increasing the resources devoted to immigration enforcement.
Congress recently approved tens of billions of dollars in additional funding for Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol operations. The funding includes plans to hire thousands of additional immigration agents and expand detention capacity across the country.
Administration officials say the goal is to dramatically increase deportations in the coming years as part of the largest immigration enforcement expansion in U.S. history.
In the meantime, federal immigration courts and detention facilities are already seeing rising caseloads as deportation numbers climb.
With deportations increasing, federal enforcement expanding, and cities pushing back against immigration operations, the debate over immigration policy shows no sign of slowing down.
Homan and other administration officials argue the crackdown is restoring order at the border and enforcing laws that had gone largely ignored in previous years.
Critics say the growing scale of deportations raises legal and humanitarian questions that will likely be fought in courts and Congress.
As the week begins, immigration remains one of the central issues shaping American politics, and the administration’s enforcement strategy is only accelerating.