Border czar Tom Homan brilliantly sparred with an ABC News host over the ongoing arrest and deportation operations, pointing out that her priorities are extremely skewed.
President Trump is now conducting daybreak immigration raids in Los Angeles.
LA is a sanctuary city full of countless illegals and many leftists who said they’d protect them.
Border Czar Tom Homan has a message for these activists, “Don’t get in our way!”
God bless Hero Homan! pic.twitter.com/YINKhHOAhd
— Paul A. Szypula 🇺🇸 (@Bubblebathgirl) January 26, 2025
Homan appeared on ABC News’ “This Week” with host Martha Raddatz on January 26, where he explained that the hundreds of illegal aliens arrested every day since President Donald Trump took office are only the beginning of the administration’s plans to remove the tens of millions of illegal aliens currently residing in the United States.
“You’re going to see the numbers steadily increase, the number of arrests nationwide as we open up the aperture,” Homan explained.
He went on to point out that the Trump administration has a plan for who to target first — criminal illegal aliens who pose a threat to public safety and national security — and then the administration would move on to the next group.
“Right now, it’s concentrating on public safety threats, national security threats. That’s a smaller population,” Homan said.
“So, we’re going to do this on priority basis, that’s President Trump’s promise,” he added. “But as that aperture opens, there’ll be more arrests nationwide.”
Homan then pointed out that it doesn’t matter at the end of the day whether an illegal alien has a criminal record, because “if you’re in the country illegally, you’re on the table” for deportations “because it’s not OK to violate the laws of this country.”
“You got to remember, every time you enter this country illegally, you violated a crime under Title Eight, the United States Code 1325, it’s a crime,” he continued. “So, if you’re in a country illegally, you got a problem. And that’s why I’m hoping those who are in the country illegally, who have not been ordered removed by the federal judge, should leave.”
He also noted that, under Trump’s leadership, ICE will be able to conduct its arrest and deportation operations anywhere in the United States — noting that illegal aliens will no longer be allowed to hide from federal agents inside schools, churches, or hospitals.
Raddatz then asked a ridiculous question that Homan had an easy response for — questioning how much taxpayer money the Trump administration would be willing to spend to deport illegal aliens.
“Estimates are that there are 11 million undocumented immigrants in this country right now,” the ABC News host asked, using incredibly outdated figures. “How can you possibly afford to deport all of those people?”
Homan fired back: “ What price do you put on national security? What price do you put on all these young ladies that have been raped and murdered and burned alive?”
“What price do you put on that?” he continued. “What price do you put on Laken Riley’s life, what price do you put on national security? Like I just explained, when you have a surge like this because we don’t secure that border, that’s when national security threats enter the country. That’s when sex trafficking goes up.”
“That’s when, you know, that’s when the fentanyl comes in that kills a quarter million Americans,” Homan added. “I don’t put a price on that.”
