President Donald Trump’s border czar, Tom Homan, said Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents arrested more than 300 illegal immigrants responsible for crimes.
“What would a person have to do to get a visit from ICE?” Fox News host Lawerence Jones asked.
“To be in the country illegally, first of all. I mean, there’s nothing in the immigration law that says you’ve got to be convicted of a serious crime to be removed under the INA. So if you’re in the country illegally, ICE can visit you,” Homan responded. “Right now, as we have said repeatedly and as President Trump’s made clear, we’re concentrating on the worst first, the public safety threats and national security threats.”
“Just yesterday, in the last 24 hours, ICE arrested over 308 serious criminals. Some of them were murderers, some of them were rapists, some of them raped a child, some of them were sexual assault of a child, so ICE is doing their job and they’re prioritizing just as the president said they would,” he explained.
“ICE is performing excellent right now on the field, and they’re going to continue every day.”
Several of Trump’s administration priorities include taking action to make America safe. This entails securing the border to protect American communities, conducting a deportation operation to “address the record border crossings of criminal aliens under the prior administration,” and ending “Biden’s catch-and-release policies, reinstating Remain in Mexico, building the wall, ending asylum for illegal border crossers, cracking down on criminal sanctuaries, and enhancing vetting and screening of aliens,” a White House statement says.