Border czar Tom Homan hit back at critics of the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement policies.
During an appearance on Fox News, Homan discussed Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) efforts to round up dangerous illegal aliens and took aim at Democrats criticizing this initiative.
“They say they want to abolish ICE,” Homan said. “Even members of Congress say, ‘let's abolish ICE.’ But what they're failing to tell the people is we're enforcing the laws that they wrote, that they enacted. We're not making this up. We're doing the same job we did under any other president except on the last 4 years under Joe Biden. ICE wasn't allowed to enforce the law.”
Tom Homan sets the “Abolish Ice” nut jobs straight:
— David Burke 🇺🇸 (@ConservativeTht) August 17, 2026
“Just short of 70 percent of everybody we arrest, is a criminal. So we're removing 100’s of 1000’s of criminals from their neighborhoods.
“ICE just found 151,000 missing children that were smuggled during the Biden…
Homan praised ICE for “record numbers of arrests, deportations,” and said the agency “arrested more illegal aliens than any time in the history of the agency.”
And people need to remember, just short of 70 percent of everybody we arrest is a criminal. So we're removing hundreds of thousands of criminals from their neighborhoods, making those neighborhoods safe again. But they can have an answer for abolishing ICE. Okay, ICE just found 151,000 missing children that were smuggled during the Biden administration. They lost track of— some of these children were victims of sex trafficking, some were forced into labor. We rescued those children, 151,000. So you want to abolish the agency that found 151,000 children?
You want to abolish an agency that seized enough fentanyl to kill every American three times over again? You want to abolish an agency that is attacking sex trafficking, women and children across that border? It just don't make sense. You know, again, we're making this country safe again. The numbers prove it. Simply look at the data.
🔥 WOW! Tom Homan just MIC DROPPED every Democrat trying to abolish ICE on national TV
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) August 17, 2026
"We're enforcing the laws THEY wrote. THEY enacted."
"ICE just found 151,000 missing CHILDREN smuggled during the Biden admin THEY lost track of. Victims of s*x trafficking...you wanna… pic.twitter.com/3aC0TBXeUQ
The administration’s focus on immigration enforcement has met with criticism — especially from those on the left who characterize it as heavy-handed. However the White House points out that most of its efforts are targeting illegal aliens who have committed violent or property crimes after entering the country illegally.
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