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Border Czar Tom Homan speaks to reporters outside the White House.
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00:00So why Indiana? Why Indiana for this latest detention center? Why not? I mean bottom line is the state should play a role in this administration's efforts to remove public safety threats from this nation as quick as possible. They will be ailing public safety threats and that security threats. States are playing a role. I'm happy. I'm happy for their participation and coordination and efforts. How quickly could we see it up and running?
00:27I don't have an exact deadline on it. I know it's a 1,000 bed facility and like I just said in another interview, I'd like to see bigger facilities that hold 4,000 or 5,000 people. Just creates more efficiencies. Near an airstrip, move people in quicker, bigger population. But 1,000 beds help. I've said from day one, we need 100,000 beds. That's what we asked for in the big beautiful bill. We got it. 100,000 beds will create more efficiencies.
00:56It allows ICE agents to arrest more bad people on the street. And with us hiring at a massive rate, more boots on the ground, we're arresting more criminals, which means we need more beds. Everybody arrests. He's a bed. They're going to be in custody for several days, several weeks, several months.
01:11It's a kind of specific case. But the more beds we have, the more success we're going to see.
01:17Do you have a cross-section?
01:18Mr. Holman, is the administration considering any federal action in Portland where you see Antifa besieged one of the buildings there for over a month now and assaulting and attacking journalists on the ground?
01:28We'll see about that. I'm going to Portland.
01:29Mr. Holman, Mr. Holman, Scripps News has learned that there was a major medical incident at Alligator Alcatraz.
01:34Major what?
01:35Major medical incident at Alligator Alcatraz.
01:37What was it?
01:38What could you tell us about that?
01:40I can tell you I went to Alligator Alcatraz two days ago, and I'm sick and tired of false stories about Alligator Alcatraz.
01:44Someone asked me the other day that the priest wasn't allowed in to get mass.
01:47Wrong.
01:49They got the records there.
01:50They showed me records.
01:51A clergy had been allowed on there.
01:53And I walked through the medical facility there.
01:57Not one person was in the trauma unit at all.
02:00I talked to the head medical person.
02:04Shared with me, you know, what they're getting.
02:06Some people don't, you know, stomachache or, you know, nothing serious has happened there.
02:12And if something serious is happening, they got a helicopter right there to take people to the nearest trauma center.
02:16So what I saw was a well-run facility, and the reason I went down there is because I get asked these questions all the time about the terrible, terrible Alligator Alcatraz.
02:28I went down there, and what I found out is there's a lot of fake stories out there about medical attention, about, you know, religious freedom and having clergy there.
02:37I went down there.
02:37I looked at it.
02:38I looked at the books.
02:39So it's just simply a false story.
02:41Can you say a word about me, please, can you say a word about me, please, can you say a word about me, please, can you say a word about me, please, can you say a word about me?
02:46Can you say a word about me?
02:47Look, I don't name the facilities, but I'll say this.
02:53The work of ICE, the men and women of ICE are trying to do their job with integrity and honor.
03:02I don't want these names to detract from that.
03:05So not naming the facilities, but I wasn't involved in that, but I want people to focus on the hard work and the dangerous work the men and women of ICE are doing.
03:15And they're doing it with integrity and honor, and I want us to stick to that.
03:19And so I don't want the names taking over the great work they're doing.
03:22This is serious work, and it's dangerous work, so I want to stick with that.
03:25Can you say a reaction to the judge considering halting operations at Alligator Alcatraz over environmental concerns?
03:33I don't understand what environmental concerns are, because I was down there.
03:37So, you know, they take waste out of there every day.
03:42They're not having any impact.
03:44They haven't put one foot of concrete down that wasn't already there.
03:47I mean, the airport was already there.
03:49Runway was already there.
03:51They're moving waste in and out every day.
03:53They're moving, you know, sewage water in and out every day.
03:56So I don't see any environmental impact.
03:58Like, again, if the judge is going to make this wrong, go down there and look at it yourself.
04:02I'm sick and tired of the radical judges trying to shut down everything we're doing.
04:05It's ridiculous.
04:06I thought the Supreme Court was pretty clear last month about these radical judges trying to, you know,
04:12stop the Trump administration from implementing our agenda that American people voted for.
04:17When can we expect the first deportees to be sent to Rwanda?
04:28Working on it.
04:29The Supreme Court has argued that a detainee at Alligator Alcatraz are in humane conditions,
04:35including flooded facilities, spoiled food, sweltering heat, and they have limited access to their terms.
04:40I was there.
04:41I walked through the detainee facilities.
04:43I walked through the medical facilities.
04:44I walked through the cafeteria.
04:45I had them show me, what did you feed these people today?
04:49I saw the lunch where they fed them.
04:53They ate better yesterday than I ate today.
04:56But I'm fine.
04:57That's a God's honor.
04:57And I looked at what they're giving them for dinner.
05:00I did it just so I can push back on the fake media stories here.
05:04I went down there.
05:05I saw the meals.
05:06I said, don't have one of those meals.
05:08And I went through the, I didn't see any flooding.
05:10I went through the facilities that were being detained.
05:12The air conditioning, the level of comfort.
05:14I was wearing a suit, and I wasn't sweating.
05:16So, again, fake stories.
05:18Mr. Holmes, can I ask a question about the U.S.?
05:19TPS for Ukrainian people.
05:20Mr. Holmes, can I ask a question about the U.S.?
05:21TPS for Ukrainian people.
05:24President Trump told that he's going to extend TPS status and U for U for Ukrainian people.
05:31Are you going to do that?
05:32Mr. Holmes, that's the Secretary of Homeland Security.
05:34That's Kristi Noem's calling on.
05:35Two questions for you.
05:36Sir, can I just ask about FEMA?
05:38So, there's reports that you're going to be assigning, reassigning FEMA agents to work for life.
05:43Would that be a temporary thing?
05:45Or are you talking about that?
05:46I have not heard that.
05:47You're the first one to say that to me, so I'm not aware of that.
05:49And are you still, Mr. Holmes, are you still targeting this 3,000 arrests a day a target?
05:53Or how should you think about your capacity to arrest with these people?
05:55Look, I think, Department of Justice, you know, 3,000 arrests, people say, what a ridiculous number.
06:01Do the math.
06:01We'd have to arrest 7,000 people every day for the remainder of this administration just to remove the people Joe Biden would be saying.
06:093,000, in my opinion, is not a target.
06:12It's not my target.
06:13But, you know, anybody says 3,000 is a ridiculous, you know, goal.
06:20I'll say look at the numbers.
06:21We'd have to arrest more than twice as many of that just to remove the people that Biden led.
06:25And that's not counting the $12,000, $15,000 already here.
06:27So I don't think anybody's working on a goal of 3,000.
06:31I think I look at the numbers every day, and I think the men and women are just doing a great job.
06:36I hope we get over 3,000 a day when we bring these additional resources on, additional beds, additional transportation contracts.
06:43Because, again, and despite what some of you are all saying, most people arrested aren't criminals.
06:49Again, crap, wrong.
06:51I look at the numbers.
06:52Every morning, the first thing I do is look at the numbers.
06:54The numbers I looked at this morning, 70% of everybody ICE arresting is a criminal.
07:01But some of y'all say, well, they're not criminal enough.
07:04Just a DUI.
07:0510,000 people a year died in DUI.
07:07Bottom line is 70% of everybody ICE arresting is a criminal.
07:10Who's the other 30% that are arrested?
07:14So when you write the stories, why don't we just be honest and tell the whole story?
07:18Many of them are national security threats that don't have criminal history.
07:22The most national security threats lay low.
07:24They don't want to encounter law enforcement while they're here.
07:26For instance, over 300 Iranian nationals.
07:29Probably not criminals.
07:30They're not criminal history, but they're national security.
07:32And they need to be arrested and checking out the streets.
07:35Who are the other ones?
07:36Many of them are final orders.
07:38These are people who have due process at great taxpayer expense.
07:41And a federal judge ordered them removed.
07:43And our job, under statute, is to remove them.
07:47So we find them, we remove them.
07:49May not be criminals, but they have a due process.
07:51The reason we're doing that, because if we don't, we send a message to the whole world.
07:56It's okay to cross the border illegally.
07:58It's a crime, but don't worry about it.
08:00Show up in court or not show up in court and get a final order of removal from a federal judge.
08:06But don't worry about it.
08:07As long as you don't commit another crime, there's no one looking for you.
08:10If that's the message we send to the whole world, you're never going to fix this issue.
08:14There are millions of people standing in line, doing things the right way.
08:18Taking their tests, doing their background investigation, paying their fees.
08:22They're sitting in the back seat where we had 10.5 million illegal immigrants come to the border who a vast majority of them were asylum cheaters.
08:29You can call them asylum seekers all you want.
08:31I guess that's an accurate term.
08:33But look at the immigration court data.
08:35Nine out of ten people who claim asylum out of the border end up with an order of removal.
08:39They cheated the system ahead of thousands of people in the world who really do need our protection.
08:44They really do need asylum, protecting from the home government.
08:48They're sitting in the back seat.
08:49What the Trump administration is doing, we're enforcing laws and acts by Congress.
08:52President Trump's keeping his promise.
08:54And look at the crime rates already.
08:56Every public safety threat ICE takes off the street makes this country safer.
09:01Every national security threat we take off the street makes this country safer.
09:05Every illegal animal with a final deportation order that we remove sends a strong message to the whole world.
09:11It's not okay to enter this country illegally.
09:13It is a crime.
09:14It is not okay to be here illegally.
09:16And if you're here illegally, you've got a problem.
09:19You should be looking over your shoulder.
09:20It's not okay to be here illegally.
09:22Like it wouldn't be okay for me to be in any other country illegally.
09:25War and force and immigration law, that's what the American people put President Trump in their office for.
09:30President Trump's success on the border is unprecedented.
09:33We've got the most secure border in the history of the nation today.
09:35I've worked with six presidents, starting with Ronald Reagan.
09:38No one has come close to the success of the Trump administration on border security.
09:44And I looked at the numbers this morning.
09:45Again, over 300,000 repatriations since January when President Trump came in office.
09:50Do the math.
09:51That's historic.
09:52Especially when 70% of those are public safety threats and national security threats.
09:57No one does it better than a man sitting in the White House here, Donald Trump.
10:01And I'm proud, every day when I wake up, I'm proud to work for this president because he's making this country safe again every day.
10:09And we all see the numbers.
10:09Mr. Holmes, what are the cost estimates for...
10:13The U.K. government is so successful in taking the migrants to Rwanda.
10:17What gives you confidence that you will be successful and how do you see this process of...
10:21Well, if it was going to be successful, look at the numbers.
10:24You've never seen numbers this good.
10:26I think U.K. government was not successful in sending migrants to Rwanda.
10:31The U.K. government...
10:32They're not the United States of America.
10:34They don't have President Trump running the show.
10:36Mr. Holmes, a question on car workers.
10:37The president said in his interview with CNBC that he wants to work with farmers to help them with their labor needs.
10:43So we're sending back migrant farm workers back to their countries and then with a pass back illegally.
10:49What does that mean?
10:50Because the administration has been a little inconsistent in describing the case for migrant farm workers.
10:55So is that a system in place right now?
10:57Because the president said that's what was happening, that migrants are being sent back to their home countries
11:01and then being given a pass to come back here to work on the farms.
11:05I don't know.
11:06I mean, I'm not going to get ahead of the president.
11:08I don't think there's been any formal policy that's been signed or pushed out to agencies.
11:13Until we have a final plan, I'm not going to comment on that because I'm not involved in the discussions right now.
11:18So I'm not going to get ahead of the president.
11:19We'll see where it goes.
11:20I know the president made a statement that farmers may need help.
11:23And I know him and others are talking about it.
11:26And we'll see what comes out of it.
11:27I don't want to get ahead of the president.
11:27Are there still operations happening at farms and agriculture facilities?
11:30We'll do operations.
11:32The worksite operations are based on, again, a prioritization.
11:36We're trying to prioritize worksite enforcement based on criminal activity.
11:40Like the warrant we served in Los Angeles that started all the riots.
11:43People said, oh, I used to do another racial profiling operation, which was total garbage.
11:48We were serving criminal warrants at a facility that was involved with money laundering, tax evasion, and trafficking.
11:55That's why we were there.
11:56So we try to prioritize our worksite enforcement on criminal cases.
12:01Those we have information of labor, forced labor trafficking.
12:05Those we have information on tax evasion.
12:08So that's what we're doing.
12:09We prioritize everything we do.
12:11So if there's a hotel that we know there's criminal sex trafficking or criminal labor trafficking or someone being abused, someone's that danger, we're going to investigate.
12:22Mr. Homan, what are the cost estimates?
12:24Mr. Homan, what are the cost estimates for this detention center in Indiana?
12:28Who came up with the name?
12:30And also, how much is this going to look like Alligator Alcatraz?
12:35I don't know who came up with the name.
12:37I don't know the details.
12:39But I'll say this, again, 1,000 beds come in very handy.
12:42And I'm glad the states are stepping up to help us do this.
12:45Every bed we bring on, we fill pretty quickly.
12:49I mean, we don't have less than several hundred beds this morning.
12:52We'll fill them by tomorrow morning.
12:54So the more beds we bring on, and look, I'll say it again, I am happy that governors are stepping up wanting to help with this.
13:01Because interior enforcement is our responsibility, too.
13:04They saw what happened to the crime race.
13:05They see what happened to all the U.S. citizens that were attacked by people not supposed to be here.
13:10They've read all the stories on young women raped and murdered by members of criminal cartels that were released in this country by administration.
13:17They're angry, too.
13:18And they're happy that President Trump's taking action to not only secure the border at the highest level ever, but to make this country safe again.
13:24I'm glad governors are stepping up, but I'll say it again.
13:27I would like to see bigger facilities that would be more efficient, holding several thousand people.
13:32But a thousand-bed facility is a great help because we need those thousand beds.
13:35We need them today.
13:36So the quicker they bring it on, the better.
13:38What about the administration's next move if the judge does order to halt operations at Alligator Albatross?
13:43Well, we'll do it, we'll litigate it, we'll appeal it, and we'll win.
13:48I mean, bottom line is, why would you stop operations at a facility that has no issues, as far as I'm concerned?
13:56As a matter of fact, if what we were in the facility, remind me of yesterday, the facilities that I walked through,
14:01would our FEMA employees go and set up their base camps?
14:05Facilities just as good as what we send our FEMA employees to, if not better.
14:09There is no issues with Alligator Alcatraz, and I can say that comfortably, because I was there.
14:15I was just there the day before yesterday.
14:17I saw it.
14:18I walked through it.
14:19I walked through every square foot of that facility.
14:22Again, the detention facility, where they prepare the food, the medical facility.
14:28I got a briefing of all the SOPs on if a hurricane comes, you know, what are the plans for, you know, evacuation?
14:35I mean, where do you put the most significant criminals compared to the lesser criminals?
14:41They got it covered.
14:43And I think it's a good facility.
14:46I didn't see a single issue, and I was there all day.
14:49Tom, can you update us on the hiring process?
14:52I mean, where ICE agents you need, and are you getting a tick in people applying?
14:56We have no problem recruiting.
14:58We got record numbers.
14:59The Board of Chargers, a record number of people wanting to come to the Board of Chargers.
15:02Overwhelming number, ICE the same way.
15:05I've shared this a couple weeks ago.
15:06I actually just have a LinkedIn account, and I had to shut it down, because I had thousands and thousands of people reaching out to me,
15:12whether they just got out of the military, whether they're, you know, police officers in counties and cities,
15:19or retired ICE agents, or retired Board of Chargers, you're average Americans.
15:23I mean, I love them all for wanting to come apart, but they shut me down.
15:26So there's no lack of men and women that want to come and join this administration,
15:31because they've seen the great things this administration is doing.
15:33Is the administration at all concerned about ICE's recruiting techniques?
15:36Is that part of the reason why the ICE agents, we have more teachers coming from, maybe ICE agents,
15:41or whoever, maybe the H-CAP women, for officers who join the House, it's no longer 37.
15:47It could be legal over the 40 and a half.
15:48Yeah, I think it's a good thing.
15:51I mean, I'm 63, and I'd love to put a badge of gun on and go out there and do these things.
15:54I mean, bottom line, you've got a lot of patriots, and I think, you know, the age limits are decades old,
16:00and we need to look at that, but just because if someone comes in and they're, you know, 55,
16:05maybe they can't carry a badge of gun, they can certainly do administrative duties and help ICE,
16:09they can do targeting, they can do intelligence, take them to put them on the street with a badge of gun.
16:13So we'll welcome a lot of people to come, not just do law enforcement work,
16:17but do the other work that doesn't require a badge of gun.
16:20And when they do that work, that means the badge of gun that's doing that work can leave that work
16:24and go on the street and let the new guy sit there and do the job that doesn't require a badge of gun.
16:29Sir, are there any plans to protect people here under DACA from deportation?
16:37President Trump, you know, he's been clear on that, and you don't see, again, prioritization speaks for itself.
16:44Public safety threats and national security threats.
16:49So that's what prioritization is.
16:50No one's prioritizing DACA.
16:53And under first Trump administration, he came up with a plan to fix DACA.
16:57And who shut it down?
16:58Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer.
17:00What's the pleasant terms?
17:01One more question.
17:02Can you give us an estimate of how many people are using the CPE Home Act to salvage for it?
17:08I haven't looked at that recently.
17:09The last time I looked, it was about 7,000.
17:11The last number, and that was weeks ago.
17:13It was 7,000.
17:14But I think there have been several studies done that over a million illegal aliens have left this country on their own.
17:19I think they're seeing a couple things.
17:21Number one, they want the ability to come back on their legal program.
17:24And as we said before, if you get formally deported and we have to go find you and go through that whole process,
17:29there's a statutory bar on you ever coming back, anywhere from 5 years to 20 years, depending on a specific case, sometimes never coming back.
17:38So I think the message the Secretary's been sending is, if you're in the country, really, go on your own and leave opportunities for the future.
17:46And, you know, you can get your affairs in order, contact ICE.
17:50They'll get you a plane home.
17:51Once you get there, they'll give you $1,000.
17:53They'll get you started.
17:55But that's the right way to do it.
17:56And I hope when people do it.
17:57Hey, Tom, real quick, Illinois Congresswoman Delia Ramirez this week has said she, born in Chicago, to Guatemalan parents,
18:06said she's more proud to be a Guatemalan.
18:08I'll give you the exact quote.
18:09I'm a proud Guatemalan before I'm an American.
18:12Congressman Andy Ogles has said she should be deported over this.
18:15Should she face any consequences as a sitting congressmember?
18:18I think what she said was disgusting, right?
18:20I mean, she's a sitting U.S. Congresswoman, citizen of this country.
18:25She's serving at the privilege of her state.
18:28Her bowlers put her in there.
18:30So I think her commitment should be to her state and the people that put her in that position.
18:36That should be her constituency.
18:37And I think what she said there was, in a very way, supporting illegal aliens from Guatemala that are here.
18:45And it's a very shot at ICE.
18:47This piece of shit is what she's doing, right?
18:48But what she needs to know is ICE is deporting thousands of nationals of Guatemala every week.
18:56And we can continue that until every illegal alien in Guatemala is removed from this country.
19:01That's what the people voted for, and that's what we're going to do.
19:04It's unfortunate she said that.
19:05I wish she'd known.
19:08It's ridiculous.
19:09Mr. Tom, I have a question for the Lebanese.
19:12For the Lebanese, if they are in the country, that they have temporary protective status in the country,
19:18and they are Lebanese and they are in the country,
19:21should the community in the U.S. prepare for stricter ICE enforcement for possible deportation
19:28if they are under temporary protective status?
19:32I'm not going to get a secretary on that.
19:33TPS is her decision, not mine.
19:35Can you extend the veranda?
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