Speaking during a broadcast of “Hannity” on Monday, November 11, Tom Homan, President-elect Donald Trump’s newly appointed “border czar,” sounded off on claims from “The View” that the incoming Trump Administration will start deporting American citizens under its mass deportation plan.
Particularly, Homan noted that the next Trump Administration will be securing the southern border, but that the co-hosts of ABC’s “The View,” which made the claim about American citizens being deported earlier in the day on that Monday, have no idea what they’re talking about.
“The View” co-host Ana Navarro said, as background, “You realize, I mean, it’s chilling what he just said. You realize when he says, ‘Yes, families can be deported together,’ what he is saying is, that U.S. Citizens can be deported. What he is saying is, if the parent is undocumented and they have U.S. Citizen children or U.S. Citizen spouses, and you don’t want to separate them, then let’s deport the U.S. Citizens.”
Beginning when Fox News Channel’s Sean Hannity asked him if the Trump Administration would actually be deporting U.S. citizens under its deportation plan, Homan said, “No, exactly not. Look, ‘The View’ is such an island of misfit toys. They don’t know what the hell they are talking about.”
Continuing, Homan told Hannity that the main focus of the administration will be focusing on the threats to public safety and national security, saying, “President Trump has made it clear we will prioritize public safety threats and national security threats first. And that’s what the focus should be.”
He added, elaborating on the massive scope of that criminal illegal immigrant problem, “There’s over 1.5. million convicted criminal aliens in this country with final orders removal that we’re going to be looking for. There’s thousands of gang members, illegal alien gang members we’ll be looking for.”
But, Homan noted, the other illegal immigrants shouldn’t be comfortable because they can and will be deported as well. He said, “Now, I’m going to say, if you’re in the country illegally, you shouldn’t feel comfortable. Absolutely not. I won’t feel comfortable if I’m in the country illegally. If I’m in some other country illegally, I’m not going to be comfortable. You should be comfortable either, because when you enter this country illegally, you have committed a crime. You are criminal and you’re not off the table.”
Homan added, commenting on the so-called “sanctuary states” that have said they will block deportations, “And I saw today numerous governors from sanctuary states saying they’re going to step in the way. They better get the hell out of the way. Either you help us or get the hell out of the way, because ICE is going to do their job. We’re going to take the handcuffs off ICE that the Biden Administration put on them and let ICE do what they do, what they do best.”
Returning to addressing “The View,” Homan said”And let me say this back to ‘The View’ and Joe Biden. They promised, this administration promised they’re going to concentrate on the criminal aliens. That was their priority. Secretary Mayorkas said that. I looked at the stats today, the removal of criminal aliens is down 74% from President Trump. We have more criminals here than we ever had. So we’ve got plenty of targets out there. And the men and women of this new administration are going to go look for them. They’re going to look for them in sanctuary cities. The sanctuary cities don’t want to help? Get out of the way. I’ll double the workforce in that sanctuary city. We’re going to do our job. Despite the politics, we’re doing it. So get used to it because we’re coming.”
