The Deportation State vs. Due Process: Trump’s Border Czar Threatens Wisconsin Governor Evers for Following the Law

By Justin Jest | WOYJO.com

The founding fathers didn’t fight off a monarchy just so we could end up with Tom Homan threatening governors like a low-budget mob enforcer in a DHS-issued windbreaker. But here we are. It’s 2025, the executive branch is in open conflict with the legal system, and Trump’s Border Czar just hinted that Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers might be a felon for advising state employees to talk to a lawyer before opening the door to ICE agents.

That’s not satire. That’s not hyperbole. That’s America under the latest sequel in the Trump trilogy: 2025 – Revenge of the Reich.

Tom Homan, former acting ICE director and current cosplay patriot, fired off a thinly veiled threat during an interview, saying “Wait to see what’s coming,” in response to Evers’ guidance instructing state employees not to hand over documents or answer questions without speaking to a lawyer if ICE shows up. Homan, with the subtlety of a wrecking ball in a glass house, warned that “if you cross that line into impediment or knowingly harbor or conceal an illegal alien, that is a felony, and we will treat it as such.”

Translated from Homanese: If you act like a responsible adult and seek legal counsel when men with federal badges come asking for private information on Wisconsin residents, you just might be committing a crime in Trump’s America.

This is not a joke. It’s not just performative bluster. This is a tactic: authoritarian creep, enforced through fear. It’s the executive branch declaring that lawyering up — a bedrock American right — is now tantamount to obstruction.

Let’s zoom out.

Governor Evers’ directive, issued through the Wisconsin Department of Administration, is as mundane and lawful as it gets. It advises state workers to stay calm, notify supervisors, verify the identity of federal agents, and — most shockingly — call the Office of Legal Counsel. The same way you’d be told to behave if the IRS, FBI, or Department of Agriculture wandered into your office demanding to see files.

What you are not supposed to do, per the memo, is hand over private data or allow access to non-public areas without legal approval. That’s not resistance. That’s constitutional protocol. It’s also called protecting your fellow citizens from warrantless intrusion.

But Tom Homan — who sounds more like he’s auditioning for a villain role in a failed Fox drama than performing a serious federal role — thinks asking for a lawyer is now “impeding a federal officer.”

What we’re seeing is the redefinition of “obstruction.” In Trump’s 2025 America, it’s not obstructing justice to ignore subpoenas or defy court rulings, but it is obstruction for a state employee to not immediately serve up your personal records to a rogue immigration agent. If George Orwell were alive, he’d sue for plagiarism.

Let’s be clear: Evers’ memo doesn’t promote sanctuary policies. It doesn’t instruct anyone to lie, mislead, or hide people. It simply reminds government workers that due process, privacy laws, and constitutional rights still exist — or at least they used to.

And Homan’s response? A mafia-style warning that sounds suspiciously like he’s laying the groundwork for the arrest of a sitting governor.

Is that where we are?

Because if a presidential advisor can make threats against elected officials for following legal procedures — and if that’s not immediately condemned by the rest of the government — then we are no longer just approaching authoritarianism. We are sprinting into it wearing a red hat and carrying a copy of “The Art of the Deal” like it’s the goddamned Bible.

Attorney General Josh Kaul, a rare voice of sanity in this Orwellian psychodrama, pointed out that Evers’ guidance was “just common sense.” Having lawyers involved when federal agents come knocking is not radical. It’s responsible governance. It’s also what you’d expect from a state with the audacity to believe in the Constitution.

But nothing enrages this administration more than someone invoking the law — especially when it’s used to protect people instead of persecute them.

Republicans in the Wisconsin Assembly immediately demanded that Evers rescind the directive, likely because the only thing scarier to them than an immigrant is a lawyer. Or perhaps it’s just that they know the new rules of MAGA authoritarianism: any act of resistance, no matter how legal, is treason. And any loyalty to law, justice, or decency is weakness.

This isn’t about immigration. This is about power. Absolute power. The kind that doesn’t want a governor or a judge or even a civil servant getting in the way of sweeping raids, secret detentions, and warrantless data grabs.

This is a test balloon.

The administration is seeing if they can get away with threatening a governor in broad daylight. If they can frame Evers — a sitting governor, legally defending the rights of his workers and residents — as a criminal, then no one is safe. Not you. Not your mayor. Not the librarian who asks for a warrant before handing over public computer logs.

And once that line is crossed — when the mere act of demanding due process becomes a prosecutable offense — the American experiment doesn’t just fail. It explodes.

So here’s the real question: will we defend the rule of law when it’s attacked by those who claim to enforce it?

Or will we let the Constitution be used as toilet paper by the same hands clutching the levers of federal power?

Either way, Tony Evers may be the first governor in modern American history to be threatened with arrest for saying “Call your lawyer.”

And that, dear reader, is not just a warning shot. That’s the sound of democracy being hunted.