{"id":1030526,"date":"2024-04-04T23:03:28","date_gmt":"2024-04-04T23:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1030526"},"modified":"2024-05-10T16:41:58","modified_gmt":"2024-05-10T16:41:58","slug":"trumps-cabinet-2025-maga-conspiracy-theorist-vivek-ramaswamy-to-lead-the-department-of-homeland-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/trumps-cabinet-2025-maga-conspiracy-theorist-vivek-ramaswamy-to-lead-the-department-of-homeland-security\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s Cabinet 2025: MAGA Conspiracy Theorist Vivek Ramaswamy To Lead the Department of Homeland Security"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Donald Trump surrounds himself with the most out-of-touch extremists he can find \u2013 and is already planning to fill his Cabinet with far-right MAGA fanatics ready to push his dangerous agenda. As Trump fundraises with a former Department of Homeland Security official who is an <\/em>architect of his family separation policy<\/em><\/a> as well as far-right conspiracy theorist and <\/em>possible future DHS secretary pick<\/em><\/a> Vivek Ramaswamy,<\/em> DNC Rapid Response Director Alex Floyd released the following statement<\/em><\/strong>:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAs Donald Trump tries desperately to raise money tonight by parading around his first-term head of immigration enforcement, Tom Homan, who helped write the book on Trump\u2019s cruel family separation policies that scarred children and sent shockwaves around the country, he is considering installing a terrifying new head of the Department of Homeland Security \u2013 Vivek Ramaswamy \u2013 if he gets the chance. Ramaswamy cheered on Trump as he tanked the bipartisan border deal while championing Trump\u2019s inhumane and ineffective immigration policies, from mass deportations to the end of birthright citizenship. The fact that Trump is embracing Homan and seriously considering a conspiracy theorist like Ramaswamy for a cabinet position charged with homeland security underlines that Trump is unhinged, unserious and unfit.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vivek Ramaswamy supported Donald Trump\u2019s efforts to tank the toughest, fairest bipartisan border deal in decades that is supported by two-thirds of Americans.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ramaswamy<\/a>: \u201cWe don\u2019t need a new border law.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ramaswamy<\/a>: \u201cThe border bill in Congress is a joke.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump<\/a>: \u201cPlease blame it on me.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump<\/a>: \u201cI think [Republicans] are making a terrible mistake if they vote for the bill.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

New York Times<\/a>: \u201cRepublicans Against Border Enforcement\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rolling Stone<\/a>: \u201cBorder Patrol Supports \u2018Strong\u2019 Immigration Deal. Republicans Don\u2019t Care\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Navigator Research<\/a>: \u201cTwo in Three Americans Support the Bipartisan Immigration Deal\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Third Way<\/a>: \u201cVoters like the deal, both as a whole and individual components.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ramaswamy\u2019s immigration agenda includes his extreme and possibly unconstitutional plan to end birthright citizenship and deport American-born children of undocumented immigrants.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ramaswamy<\/a>: \u201cI want to be very clear about this. I think that birthright citizenship does not and should not apply to the kids of parents who entered this country illegally.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NBC News<\/a>: \u201cRepublican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy says that as president, he would deport American-born children of undocumented immigrants. \u2018The family unit will be deported,\u2019 said Ramaswamy when asked by NBC News if the deportations would include American-born children, after a packed town hall here Friday.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ramaswamy wants to mass deport entire families. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Interviewer<\/a>: \u201cYou said you want to deport the entire family unit of undocumented immigrants.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ramaswamy: \u201cYes, entire family unit.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ramaswamy has even pushed for redirecting resources away from our military to the southern border.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bret Baier, Fox News<\/a>: \u201cMr. Ramaswamy, you would not support an increase of funding to Ukraine?\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ramaswamy: \u201cI would not and I think that this is disastrous that we\u2019re protecting against an invasion across somebody else\u2019s border when we should use those same military resources to prevent across the invasion of our own southern border here in the United States of America.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ramaswamy wants to eliminate the H-1B visa system for skilled workers, even though his own company frequently utilized and benefited from the program.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ramaswamy<\/a>: \u201c[The H-1B system is] bad for everyone involved. \u2026 The lottery system needs to be replaced by actual meritocratic admission. It\u2019s a form of indentured servitude that only accrues to the benefit of the company that sponsored an H-1B immigrant. I\u2019ll gut it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Politico<\/a>: \u201cGOP candidate Vivek Ramaswamy has vowed to \u2018gut\u2019 the system for H-1B temporary worker visas if he wins the White House. It\u2019s the very system he\u2019s used in the past to hire high-skilled foreign workers for the pharma company that built much of his wealth. From 2018 through 2023, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services approved 29 applications for Ramaswamy\u2019s former company, Roivant Sciences, to hire employees under H-1B visas, which allow U.S. companies to employ foreign workers in tech and other specialized jobs.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Department of Homeland Security was established in the wake of 9\/11 \u2013 meanwhile, Ramaswamy has repeatedly entertained dangerous 9\/11 conspiracy theories.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Politico<\/a>: \u201cRamaswamy: I \u2018don\u2019t believe\u2019 the 9\/11 Commission report\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NBC News<\/a>: \u201cVivek Ramaswamy suggests \u2018the truth\u2019 about 9\/11 is still unknown\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fox News<\/a>: \u201cVivek Ramaswamy on 9\/11: ‘I don’t believe the government has told us the truth\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NBC News<\/a>: \u201cWhile visiting the Sept. 11. memorial Monday in Lower Manhattan, Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy said he stands by the comments he had made regarding the terrorist attacks in a recent interview. \u2018So today\u2019s not the day to talk about the comments I made, which I stand by. But it is important to have a government that tells the truth to its people, that people can trust, and trust its people back,\u2019 he said while attending the Fire Department of New York\u2019s pipe and drum tribute at Station 10.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Donald Trump surrounds himself with the most out-of-touch extremists he can find \u2013 and is already planning to fill his Cabinet with far-right MAGA fanatics ready to push his dangerous agenda. 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