President-elect Trump's newly appointed “border czar” has refuted media claims that the incoming administration will deport Americans under Trump's mass deportation plan to secure the southern border.
On Monday's “Hannity,” Fox News host Sean Hannity told former acting ICE Director Tom Homan that the new administration is legitimate, following the claims made that day on ABC's “The View.” asked if he intended to deport US citizens.
“No, not at all,” Homan said. “You know, 'The View' is an island of totally misfit toys. They don't know what the hell they're talking about.”
Homan was reacting to comments from “The View” co-host Ana Navarro, who said Trump's plan to avoid separating households with mixed immigration status claimed that U.S. citizens would be deported. She also claimed that there were not enough criminal illegal aliens in the country to carry out a mass deportation plan.
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“The View” co-host Ana Navarro claimed that under President-elect Trump's mass deportation plan, legal U.S. citizens would be deported along with the families of illegal immigrants. (Screenshot/ABC)
“When you talk about mass deportations, people think, 'Oh, it's just criminals.' There aren't enough criminals or aliens in federal prisons to do mass deportations,” Navarro said Monday. spoke on the program.
“It means grandmothers, it means brothers and aunts, it means abuelos and abuelas, it means dreamers. It means family, it means your colleagues. I mean,” she continued.
Homan pushed back against Navarro's claims during an appearance on “Hannity.”
“President Trump has made it clear that he will prioritize public safety and national security threats first, and that should be the focus,” he said.
“There are over 1.5 million convicted criminal aliens in this country who have final deportation orders and we are conducting searches. Thousands of gang members, illegal aliens, If someone is in the country illegally, it's definitely not comfortable. I would not be comfortable if I was in another country illegally. If you enter this country illegally, you are committing a crime, so you should feel safe. ”
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Tom Homan disputed claims on ABC's “The View” that President Trump is deporting legal U.S. citizens as part of a mass deportation plan.
Homan also directed Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to investigate the 425,000 undocumented immigrants who have been convicted of crimes and are currently roaming freely in the United States, according to a recent ICE report. He promised to give him authority.
“We're going to go get them,” Homan told Hannity.
“And today, I saw a lot of governors in sanctuary states say they are going to get in the way. They better get out of the way. Either you help us or get out of the way. Because ICE will do it.'We're going to take the handcuffs off ICE that the Biden administration has put on them and let ICE do what they're supposed to do, what they do best.'' Ta.
“And let me say this back to 'The View' and Joe Biden,” Homan continued. “They promised, this administration promised to focus on criminal aliens. That was their priority, Secretary Mayorkas said. If you look at the statistics today, President Trump There are more criminals here than ever before. And the people of this new regime are going to go look for them in sanctuary cities. Don't cities want to help? I'm doubling the workforce in that sanctuary city, we're doing it, so get used to it. we are coming ”
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FILE – A group claiming to be of Indian origin sits behind the border wall and waits to be picked up by Border Patrol agents after crossing the border fence in the Tucson area of the U.S.-Mexico border, Aug. 29, 2023. At Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument near Lukeville, Arizona (AP Photo/Matt York, File) (AP Photo/Matt York, File)
Homan, President Trump's next border czar, is a former New York state trooper and former Border Patrol agent. He was selected by the Obama administration to lead ICE's removal operations and received an award for his work deporting illegal immigrants.
When Trump was elected in 2016, he appointed Homan acting director of the entire agency, and Homan became one of the key faces of the first Trump administration in its first few years, an ardent defender of its policies. became a person. broader deportation. President-elect Trump has promised to launch a “historic” mass deportation campaign during his second term.
FOX News' Adam Shaw contributed to this report.
