Border Czar Tom Homan spoke to reporters outside the White House Tuesday morning with updates on immigration enforcement operations.
Homan and President Trump face a herculean task of deporting the millions of illegal aliens, many of whom are violent criminals and rapists, that were let in under Joe Biden and the Democrats.
Over 11,000 illegals have been detained since Trump took office last month. However, the Trump Administration will need to arrest and deport far more in order to return the millions who came in over the last four years.
Homan confirmed earlier reports that he is not satisfied with these numbers. “There’s more criminal aliens that need to be arrested, hundreds of thousands, sanctuary cities are putting roadblocks up, we got leaks,” he said, noting that while the number of arrests is “three times higher than it was a year ago today,” it’s “not good enough.”
Homan then slammed the sanctuary city officials for jeopardizing the safety of ICE officers and citizens in order to provide “sanctuaries for criminals.”
The Gateway Pundit reported that Democrats in Illinois have prevented ICE officials from arresting illegal aliens from local jails and prisons, and they are even allowing illegal aliens to change their names to avoid detection by ICE. They would rather house these criminal aliens in jail at the expense of taxpayers and let them out into the street to terrorize law-abiding citizens than allow ICE to enforce the law. Additionally, the Maryland Attorney General has instructed local law enforcement not to cooperate with ICE, even threatening “civil liability.”
Other cities like New York, Los Angeles, and Denver have been harboring criminal illegal aliens for years with no consequences.
However, Attorney General Pam Bondi, as one of her first official acts, announced plans to pursue the criminal sanctuary city and state leaders for aiding and abetting illegal aliens and attempting to impede enforcement of federal immigration laws. Homan told reporters, “Bondi is going to investigate them, and we’re going to hold them accountable.”
He further responded to Pope Francis’ criticism of the Trump Administration in a letter to bishops Tuesday, where he said the mass deportation efforts “will end badly.” The Border Czar fired back, “I’ve got harsh words for the Pope.” He continued, “He ought to fix the Catholic Church and concentrate on his work and leave border enforcement to us.”
Before heading into the Oval Office, Homan also told this reporter to “watch and see what happens” when asked if ICE has plans to round up illegal aliens from leftist organizations who help them cross the border and evade deportation, as well as anti-ICE protests where leftists and illegal aliens are waving foreign flags.
WATCH:
I asked Border Czar @RealTomHoman if ICE has plans to do roundups on leftist groups aiding and abetting illegal aliens and at protests where illegals are flying their foreign flags:
“Watch and see what happens.”@gatewaypundit pic.twitter.com/Q427t859Nl
— Jordan Conradson (@ConradsonJordan) February 11, 2025
Watch the full press gaggle below:
Reporter: Is the President happy with the number of arrests?
Homan: I’m not. If you look at the arrests in interior enforcement, it’s about three times higher than it was a year ago today. Three times higher is good, but I’m not satisfied. There’s more criminal aliens that need to be arrested, hundreds of thousands, sanctuary cities are putting roadblocks up, we got leaks. So, we need to increase the arrests of illegal aliens, especially those with criminal convictions. So, we’re going to continue. So, three times higher is good. The numbers are good. For me, not good enough. We’ve got to get more.
Reporter: What’s your message for the sanctuary cities you just said we’re putting up roadblocks? Do you have a message for Chicago, for example?
Homan: Attorney General Pam Bondi is going to investigate them, and we’re going to hold them accountable. Sanctuaries are sanctuary criminals. End of story. They’re sanctuaries for criminals. Let us in the county jail to arrest the bad guy in the safety and security of a county jail. It’s safer for the alien. It’s safer for the officer. It’s certainly safer for the community. Any sanctuary city that purposely released public safety threats back in the public is stupid. I mean, let us arrest the bad guy in the jail because what the sanctuary cities are seeing, I already see the stories: non-criminals are being arrested at a higher rate, and they’re going to keep being arrested at a higher rate because if we can’t arrest that bad guy in the jail, we got to go to the community. And we go in the community, we’re going to find thr bad guy. When we find the bad guy, he’s probably with others that aren’t a criminal priority, but they’re going to get arrested too. We’re not going to tell ICE agents, ignore the oath you took, ignore the laws of immigration enforcement, just arrest the criminal alien. No, we’re taking everybody. So, sanctuary cities are going to get exactly what they don’t want, more agents in the neighborhoods and more non criminals being arrested because they forced us in the community.
Reporter: The pope this morning had some very harsh words for the…
Homan: Well, I’ve got harsh words for the Pope. Pope, go and fix the Catholic Church. I’m saying this as a lifelong Catholic. I was baptized Catholic, First Communion as a Catholic, confirmation of Catholic. He ought to fix the Catholic Church and concentrate on his work and leave border enforcement to us. He wants to attack us for securing our border? He’s got to walk around the Vatican, does he not? So, he’s got to walk around and protect his people and himself, but we can have a wall around the United States? So I wish he’d stick to the Catholic Church and fix that and leave border enforcement to us.
Reporter: What about your meeting with ICE about making sure that migrants don’t get back into the country. How did that go? You said you’d be talking with ICE.
Homan: No, it wasn’t back in the country. There’s a learning curve. I mean, I found out that ICE, some of the people they arrested, they released back in the community because there’s some of the personnel that are still acting on the last four years of non-enforcement and releasing people for various reasons. That ends. So, I’ve talked to ICE and the acting director of ICE has sent instructions out, and no one’s to be released after we arrest them without the clearance of headquarters. There’s going to be a significant medical issue we can’t take care of, and of course, there’ll be some but the number of releases were unacceptable, and that’s been fixed.
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