Tom Homan Asked About Proposal To Grant Migrant Farm Workers 'Pass' To Return To US To Work

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Speaking to reporters on Wednesday, Border Czar Tom Homan was asked about a proposal to allow deported migrant farm workers to return to the US to work.

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00:00What are the cost estimates for...

00:02U.K. government is so successful in taking the migrants to Rwanda.

00:06What gives you confidence that you will be successful, and how do you see this process?

00:10Well, if it's going to be successful, look at the numbers.

00:13You've never seen numbers this good.

00:15I think U.K. government was not successful in sending migrants to Rwanda.

00:20U.K. government...

00:21They're not the United States of America. They don't have President Trump running the show.

00:25A question on farmworkers. The President said in his interview with CNBC that he wants to work with farmers to help them with their labor needs.

00:32So we're sending back migrant farmworkers back to their countries, and then with a pass back illegally.

00:38What does that mean? Because the administration has been a little inconsistent in describing the case for migrant farmworkers.

00:44So is that a system in place right now? Because the President said that's what was happening,

00:48that migrants are being sent back to their home countries and then being given a pass to come back here to work on the farms.

00:54I don't know. I mean, I'm not going to get ahead of the President.

00:57I don't think there's been any formal policy that's been signed or pushed out to agencies.

01:02Until we have a final plan, I'm not going to comment on it because I'm not involved in discussions right now,

01:07so I'm not going to get ahead of the President. We'll see where it goes.

01:09I know the President made a statement that farmers may need help, and I know him and others are talking about it,

01:15and we'll see what comes out of it. I don't want to get ahead of the President.

01:17Are there still operations happening at farms and agriculture facilities?

01:20We'll do operations. The worksite operations are based on, again, a prioritization.

01:25We're trying to prioritize worksite enforcement based on criminal activity.

01:30Like the warrant we served in Los Angeles that started all the riots.

01:33People said, oh, I used to do another racial profiling operation, which was total garbage.

01:38We were serving criminal warrants at a facility that was involved with money laundering, tax evasion, and trafficking.

01:44That's why we were there. So we try to prioritize our worksite enforcement on criminal cases.

01:50Those we have information of labor, forced labor trafficking.

01:54Those we have information on tax evasion.

01:57So that's what we're doing. We prioritize everything we do.

02:00So if there's a hotel that we know there's criminal sex trafficking or criminal labor trafficking,

02:07or someone's being abused, someone's endangered, we're going to investigate.

Tom Homan Asked About Proposal To Grant Migrant Farm Workers 'Pass' To Return To US To Work

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