President-elect Donald Trump’s incoming border czar, Tom Homan, stated in an interview over the weekend that the administration will proceed with deporting illegal immigrants from Venezuela, even if the country refuses to accept them. Homan made the comments during a Sunday interview on CBS News’s Face The Nation with Margaret Brennan when asked about countries like Venezuela that are not cooperating with U.S. deportations.
“Well, first of all, we got President Trump coming to the Oval Office, and he’s proven during his first administration, his leadership on illegal immigration was a game changer, because, for instance, El Salvador wouldn’t take back MS-13 members when I was the ICE Director,” he said. “It took President Trump 48 hours to get El Salvador to take back their criminal aliens into their prisons.”
“And Mexico didn’t want to do the Remain in Mexico program,” he continued. “But President Trump was able to get Remain in Mexico established in Mexico. He was able to get Mexico put military on the southern and northern border.” Homan pointed out that President Joe Biden’s weakness allowed countries to simply refuse to take back their criminal illegal immigrants, adding that the administration never “forced these countries to take them back.”
“If for instance, Venezuela don’t take their people back, there’s other ways we can do it,” he said. “There’s other countries be willing to accept them. We’re hoping that President Trump will work with Venezuela and like he did with Mexico and El Salvador, and get these countries take them back. If they don’t, they’re still gonna be deported. They’re just gonna be deported to a different country.”
“We’re not gonna be held up on removing public safety trust in this country,” he continued. “We gotta put the safety of the American people first. We’ve had too many young women murdered and raped and burned alive by members of Venezuelan gangs. They need to be a priority under this administration. They’re gonna be a priority starting day one, and they will be deported.”
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Incoming “border czar” Tom Homan says he hopes President-elect Donald Trump will work with Venezuela on an agreement to take back citizens who are being deported from the U.S., as Trump previously did for El Salvador and Mexico.
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