Trump administration Border Czar Tom Homan issued a stern warning to criminal aliens on Saturday, vowing that they would all be arrested and reiterating his promise to immigrant terror groups to “wipe you off the face of the earth.” Homan, the former acting director of ICE who now leads the administration’s border enforcement efforts, told an engaged audience at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) that the number of illegal immigrant “gotaways” has dropped by 95%.
“We had about 1,800 a day in 2023. You know how many we had yesterday? Forty-eight,” he said. “You’re talking about 2,000 miles of border, and only 48 people escaped. But that’s 48 too many. I’m not going to be happy till that number’s zero.” The border czar announced that in Trump’s first month in office, ICE arrested 21,000 undocumented immigrants, but added that’s just a start, according to Fox News.
“I’m happy with the numbers, but I’m not going to be satisfied until every criminal alien gang member, every criminal alien, every Tren de Aragua is eradicated from this country and [we’ve] sent their ass to Gitmo, where they belong,” he said. In addressing criminal migrant groups such as Venezuela’s Tren de Aragua and El Salvador’s MS-13, which the Trump administration has designated as “foreign terrorist organizations,” Homan stated that the administration is fulfilling its promise to eliminate them.
“He’s going to wipe you off the face of the earth,” he said. “You have killed more Americans than every terrorist organization in the world combined. You are now a terrorist organization. So, word out to anybody that assists them, anybody that sells their drugs on a street, anybody assists these cartels in any way, you are helping a terrorist organization.”
“We’re going to save lives, because when 95% less people [are] coming across the border, how many women aren’t being raped? How many Americans aren’t dying from fentanyl overdoses? How many … terrorists aren’t getting in the country? How many women and children aren’t sex trafficked in this country? When you have a border lockdown, we’re saving lives,” Homan added.
Addressing criticism from Democrats and the media that ICE has arrested illegal aliens without criminal charges, along with criminal aliens, Homan said, “Yeah, damn right we did. Because you’re in a country illegally, which happens to be a violation of our law.” He added: “Entering this country illegally is a crime, and we’re not going to forgive it.”
Homan also took another jab at so-called “sanctuary” cities — jurisdictions mostly run by Democrats where elected officials have instructed their police departments not to assist federal immigration authorities. Homan directed his remarks specifically at the city of Boston, where Police Commissioner Michael Cox recently doubled down on his refusal to help ICE agents.
“You said you doubled down on not helping the law enforcement officers of ICE. I’m coming to Boston, and I’m bringing hell with me,” he said. “I looked at the numbers this morning, I counted, I stopped counting at nine. Nine child rapists that were in jail in Massachusetts, but rather than honoring an ICE detainer, you released them back into the street. You’re not a police commissioner. Take that badge off your chest. Put it in the desk drawer. Because you became a politician. You forgot what it’s like to be a cop.”
Homan also took a moment to express his gratitude to the men and women of federal law enforcement agencies, such as ICE and Border Patrol. “God bless the men and women of ICE. God bless all the DOJ components, we’ve got the U.S. marshals, DEA, FBI, ATF, all these five agencies helping us,” he said. And to the men and women of Border Patrol, Homan said, “I love each and every one of you wearing that green uniform. You are the finest 1% of this country.”