When it comes to immigration, President Trump has been absolutely stalwart.
He&#8217;s actually handled immigration so well that it dropped out of the top four or five issues for Americans. It was the number one or number two issue in every poll for Americans during the 2024 election cycle.
Trump was inaugurated and on the same day, everything started to get fixed because he said, we&#8217;re going to enforce the border, don&#8217;t come here.
People stopped coming.
On Monday, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt announced:
<blockquote>Later this afternoon, President Trump will sign an executive order on law and order and another executive order on sanctuary cities. The first EO will strengthen and unleash America&#8217;s law enforcement to pursue criminals and protect innocent citizens. The second EO is centered around protecting American communities from criminal aliens, and it will direct the Attorney General and Secretary of Homeland Security to publish a list of state and local jurisdictions that obstruct the enforcement of federal immigration laws.</blockquote>
All of that is quite good. He signed three executive orders, including one that instructed Attorney General Pam Bondi and the Secretary of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem, to pursue all necessary legal remedies and enforcement measures against so-called sanctuary cities.
Here&#8217;s the deal: Local law enforcement cannot be militarized by the federal government under the Posse Comitatus Act to actually enforce federal law. That is not permissible.
However, obstruction of justice, which has been happening in these sanctuary cities, where ICE goes in and you have local law enforcement actively obstructing the effort, declaring they are sanctuary cities and going out of their way to thwart federal law, that is something that the federal government should be cracking down on.
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Another one of these executive orders “aims to bolster legal resources to police officers accused of wrongdoing, and the third seeks to enforce existing laws requiring professional truck drivers to be proficient in English,” according to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/04/28/us/trump-news">The New York Times</a>.
President Trump has also been unleashing ICE to go after illegal immigration wherever they find it in significant numbers.
On Monday, <a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2025/04/28/us/colorado-springs-raid-monday/index.html">CNN</a> reported:
<blockquote>US federal agents early Sunday raided what authorities described as an underground nightclub in Colorado Springs and took into custody more than 100 migrants accused of being in the country illegally, the US Drug Enforcement Administration said.</blockquote>
Jonathan Pullen, the special agent in charge, said, “What was happening inside was significant drug trafficking, prostitution, crimes of violence. We seized a number of guns in there.”
The raid had been planned for months, according to Pullen. “During the surveillance, investigators documented drug trafficking, prostitution and the presence of people suspected to be members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua, the international gang MS-13, and the Hells Angels, Pullen said,” CNN added.
This was a very large raid. Attorney General Pam Bondi, in describing the nature of the raid, explained that 170 calls to 911 had been made over the last several years. “Wouldn&#8217;t you think that would&#8217;ve been a red flag? Nothing happened. Guns, shootings, [aggravated] batteries, nothing happened,&#8221; she told <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/pam-bondi-offers-new-details-colorado-nightclub-raid-wisconsin-judge-aided-illegal-immigrant" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fox News</a>.
Their work on immigration is the upside of the Trump administration. They&#8217;ve been doing an excellent job, even though courts have been attempting to hamstring them pretty much every step of the way. The Trump administration has been completely thorough. They are doing a good job on all of this, and they&#8217;re being very aggressive in their public-facing about it as well.
According to <a href="https://www.axios.com/2025/04/28/trump-posters-white-house-arrested-immigrants" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Axios</a>, “Trump administration officials late Sunday began placing dozens of posters of arrested unauthorized immigrants along the White House driveway. The posters — which read &#8220;ARRESTED&#8221; — specify various crimes linked to the pictured immigrants and have the White House&#8217;s official logo at the bottom.”
These posters were designed to reiterate that the goal here is to deport criminal illegal immigrants.
Immigration is still President Trump&#8217;s most popular issue.
It should be.

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You knew it was coming. You woke up and the sun seemed a little brighter.
The birds are singing. Planes are flying — mostly full of gang members headed to their new, secure home in El Salvador. Yes, things are returning to normal.
It’s Norming in America.
So go ahead, touch some grass. As Ben Shapiro likes to say, “The era of weird is over and the era of the normie is back.”
And to celebrate Norming in America, we put together this neat video for you.
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Today, we’re actually arresting shoplifters and fewer businesses are being burned down. All over America, pronouns are being dropped from bios. Men are (still) not having babies. And fewer drag queens are flashing their genitals at children.
What is Norming in America, you ask? Easy.
It’s the return of the word &#8220;illegal.&#8221; It’s Tom Homan on CNN citing chapter and verse of America’s legal code.
It’s leaving &#8220;wokeness and weakness&#8221; behind at the Pentagon. And it’s the sound of federal employees scattering as “Big Balls” from DOGE enters the building.
It’s the return of the Easter Bunny to the White House lawn instead of the trans guy flashing his chest for the camera.
It’s a press secretary who makes sense when she speaks. And it’s trying to keep up with a president who only needs three hours of sleep to make it through the day compared to a president who needed three naps.
It’s the return of biological reality and the removal of men from women’s sports and female prisons.
It’s America feeling like America again.
So join us, and let’s never go back to those weird, angry, divisive times again.

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It’s Norming In America. Feels Different, Doesn’t It?

It's Norming In America. Feels Different, Doesn’t It?

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BOSTON—The Daily Wire joined U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Acting Director Todd Lyons and his agents in Greater Boston as they hunted down criminal illegal aliens.
The operation comes as President Donald Trump marks his first 100 days in office, and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/homan-does-indeed-bring-hell-to-boston-much-more-to-do-but-it-will-be-done" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Border Czar Tom Homan</a> vows to “go to Boston and bring hell with me” in an effort to arrest illegal aliens who have sexually assaulted children.
“We did more arrests in these 100 days than the previous administration did last year,” Lyons told The Daily Wire in his first interview.
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Lyons became the acting director of ICE in March after five years as Boston Field Office Director. He said morale is at an all-time high following the Trump administration giving the support needed to remove illegal aliens.
ICE is focused on deporting the “worst of the worst” that the Biden administration ignored, like violent criminal illegal aliens or those who have been deported before.
“It’s the worst crime in the world when you sexually assault a child,” <a href="https://x.com/KassyAkiva/status/1916861488616133083" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Homan said</a> in a White House press briefing on Monday. “That’s why I made a statement that one time I was going to go to Boston and bring hell with me.”
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/mexicos-door-daily-wires-kassy-akiva-sees-the-border-crisis-firsthand-2" target="_blank" rel="noopener">‘MEXICO’S DOOR’: DAILY WIRE’S KASSY AKIVA SEES THE BORDER CRISIS FIRSTHAND</a>
During the ride-along on Friday, ICE arrested 55-year-old Miguel Angel Chavez, who was convicted on two counts of indecent assault and battery on a child under 14 and deported in 2013. Chavez, a citizen of El Salvador, illegally re-entered the United States at an unknown place and time following his first deportation.
<div id="attachment_912979" style="width: 874px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-912979" class="size-large wp-image-912979" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/04/GettyImages-2211864886-864x576.jpg" alt="Tom Homan at the White House press room during a briefing on the Trump Administration's deportation efforts in the first 100 days." width="864" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/04/GettyImages-2211864886-864x576.jpg 864w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/04/GettyImages-2211864886-300x200.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/04/GettyImages-2211864886-768x512.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/04/GettyImages-2211864886.jpg 1024w" sizes="(max-width: 864px) 100vw, 864px" />White House Border Czar Tom Homan touts the deportation record of the Trump Administration in the first 100 days. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)</div>
The second arrestee during the mission was 69-year-old Jose Lazaro Ayala, who illegally entered the country undetected and was convicted in September of leaving the scene of an accident involving an injured person or death. Ayala is pending removal to El Salvador, according to ICE.
“These aren&#8217;t the people you want in your neighborhood,” Lyons said. “These arrests right here show what we&#8217;ve done these first 100 days and what Secretary Noem and President Trump have been really pushing for: that ICE gets the worst of the worst.”
ICE was unable to target three other criminal illegal aliens in the mission, possibly because poor weather kept them from going to their outdoor jobs.
<div id="attachment_912973" style="width: 1034px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-912973" class="size-large wp-image-912973" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/04/Cover-images-3-1024x576.jpg" alt="Miguel Angel Chavez and Jose Lazaro Ayala being arrested by ICE agents in the Greater Boston area. Chavez was arrested for wo counts of indecent assault and battery on a child under 14 and Ayalla was arrested for for the offense of leaving the scene of an accident involving an injured person or death." width="1024" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/04/Cover-images-3-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/04/Cover-images-3-300x169.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/04/Cover-images-3-768x432.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/04/Cover-images-3.jpg 1280w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" />Miguel Angel Chavez and Jose Lazaro Ayala were arrested in the Greater Boston area on Friday for being criminal illegal aliens. (Yisroel Tietelbaum)</div>
The Daily Wire witnessed firsthand the challenges ICE is facing in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tom-homan-biden-first-president-to-intentionally-leave-border-unsecured" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sanctuary jurisdictions</a> during the ride-along. According to Lyons, migrants are attracted to places like Massachusetts because of its generous social service benefits. Numerous sanctuary cities make deportations more difficult by often refusing to cooperate with ICE.
“One of the big difficulties operating in our sanctuary jurisdiction is that these are actual public safety threats,” he said. “A jail, a police department, a sheriff&#8217;s department, and state police have deemed these individuals a public safety threat and locked them up. Yet instead of working with the federal government, they decide to release them back on the street.”
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/boston-mayor-doubles-down-on-defying-trump-deportations-as-ma-police-arrest-migrants-for-child-rape" target="_blank" rel="noopener">BOSTON MAYOR DOUBLES DOWN ON DEFYING TRUMP DEPORTATIONS AS MA POLICE ARREST MIGRANTS FOR CHILD RAPE</a>
Lyons said that in sanctuary jurisdictions, agents have to work harder to surveil targets and gather information about them to plan arrests.
“For these two today, anywhere between 40 to 80 hours could have been put in just on surveillance in research into these crimes, because, number one, there are ghosts,” he said.
“The state doesn&#8217;t provide us driver&#8217;s license data, registration data. So really, the men and women of ICE have to go and create these cases on their own and then get out there and do surveillance and try to get court and police records.”
<div id="attachment_912995" style="width: 963px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-912995" class="size-large wp-image-912995" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/04/IMG_8087-953x576.jpg" alt="Kassy Akiva interviews ICE acting director Todd Lyons in the Greater Boston area during a raid on criminal illegal immigrants." width="953" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/04/IMG_8087-953x576.jpg 953w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/04/IMG_8087-300x181.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/04/IMG_8087-768x464.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/04/IMG_8087.jpg 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 953px) 100vw, 953px" />Daily Wire reporter Kassy Akiva interviewed the new Acting Director of ICE, Todd Lyons, in his first on-video interview in his new role. (Yisroel Teitelbaum)</div>
By not working with ICE, sanctuary cities increase the number of deportations, according to Lyons. Instead of simply picking up criminal illegal aliens at jails, ICE is forced to track them down at their workplaces or in their neighborhoods. This often results in other illegal aliens — violent criminals or not — being arrested as well.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/mayors-of-boston-chicago-denver-and-nyc-called-to-testify-in-congress-over-sanctuary-city-policies" target="_blank" rel="noopener">MAYORS OF BOSTON, CHICAGO, DENVER AND NYC CALLED TO TESTIFY IN CONGRESS OVER SANCTUARY CITY POLICIES</a>
Lyons credited ICE’s recent success to Trump’s whole-of-government approach, which pairs ICE with agents from other federal agencies, including the FBI, DEA, IRS, Diplomatic Security Service, and others.
“With no doubt, ICE is helping the president establish his goals and his pledges that he made during the campaign, which was to get the worst of the worst outside of our communities, and I think this first hundred days have been a great success,” Lyons said.

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Border czar Tom Homan said Monday that Joe Biden was the first president in history to intentionally leave the border unsecured.
Homan made the comments at a White House briefing to discuss border enforcement during President Donald Trump&#8217;s first hundred days. Homan said that under Trump, unlawful crossings were &#8220;historically low&#8221; and that the border was the most secure it has ever been, in contrast to the record number of illegal immigrants that entered the United States under the Biden administration.
&#8220;Every president I ever worked for took border security seriously because you can&#8217;t have national security if you don&#8217;t have strong border security,&#8221; Homan said. &#8220;Even President Obama and President Clinton took some steps to secure the border because they understood national security was important. Joe Biden is the first president in the history of this nation who came into office and unsecured a border on purpose. That&#8217;s just a fact.&#8221;
He later said that Biden&#8217;s immigration policies were motivated by the desire that a future Democratic president would give illegal immigrants released into the country amnesty, saying Biden was &#8220;selling this country off for future political power.&#8221;
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Border Czar <a href="https://twitter.com/RealTomHoman?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RealTomHoman</a>: &quot;Joe Biden is the first president in the history of this nation who came into office and unsecured a border ON PURPOSE.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/yMYKgNyTaZ">pic.twitter.com/yMYKgNyTaZ</a>
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Contrasting Biden and Trump, Homan said that between 11,000-15,000 people were crossing the border illegally per day this time of the year under Biden, while under Trump, just 178 had crossed in the last 24 hours. During the same time, he said there were 1,800 known &#8220;gotaways&#8221; under Biden, compared to just 38 under Trump. Homan added that from January 20 to April 1, 2024, Biden released 184,000 illegals out of federal custody into the country. The Trump administration has only released nine total, including four so they could testify in criminal cases and four with extreme medical conditions.
In total, Homan said that there have been 139,000 deportations under Trump. He added that the administration was prioritizing the estimated 700,000 illegals who have been charged with crimes. The Trump administration on Monday placed signs on the White House lawn featuring mugshots of deported illegals arrested over crimes like rape and murder.
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During the briefing, Homan also weighed in on the arrest of Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge Hannah Dugan on Friday over allegations that she helped an illegal immigrant from Mexico evade ICE.
&#8220;You don&#8217;t have to support ICE&#8217;s operations. You can support sanctuary cities if that&#8217;s what you desire to do. Sanctuary cities can stand aside and watch ICE keep their communities safe,&#8221; Homan said. &#8220;When you cross that line to impediment or knowingly harboring and concealing an illegal alien from ICE, you will be prosecuted, judge or not.&#8221;

White House Press Secretary Leavitt And Border Czar Homan Hold Briefing On Border

Tom Homan: Biden First President To Intentionally Leave Border Unsecured

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A twice-deported illegal alien who killed a young couple in a drunk driving accident was set to be let out of a California prison more than six years early.
Oscar Eduardo Ortega-Anguiano, a Mexican national, was charged with manslaughter and sentenced to ten years in prison after he <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/top-trump-officials-file-charges-against-illegal-immigrant-after-fox-news-exposes-early-release-plans">killed</a> Anya Varfolomeev and Nicholay Osokin in a drunk driving accident in Orange County, California, in November 2021.
The young couple was burned alive after Ortega-Anguiano barreled into their vehicle while high, drunk, and driving nearly 100 miles per hour. The family was notified by the state that the illegal alien was set to be released from prison after serving just over one-third of his ten-year sentence.
Anya Varfolomeev’s father <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/illegal-immigrant-convicted-killing-teens-high-speed-crash-released-early">decried</a> the planned early release of the illegal alien. “It&#8217;s disgusting. You have two young, unbelievable future, productive American citizens killed for nothing and that illegal immigrant who already has been deported twice is going to be released again? For what?” Anatoly Varfolomeev said. “If even he is deported, he will come back.”
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has placed an immigration detainer on the illegal alien, and after public backlash, Governor Gavin Newsom&#8217;s press office has announced that the state will be <a href="https://x.com/GovPressOffice/status/1915107716688962033">honoring the request</a>.
“After being deported in 2013, this individual unlawfully re-entered the US &amp; committed heinous crimes,” the governor’s press office said in a post on X. “CDCR will again coordinate with ICE — as they have w/ 10,000+ inmates — to transfer him before release.”
Ortega-Anguiano will face new federal charges from the Department of Justice (DOJ) for illegally reentering the United States after having previously been deported.
“My office has filed a felony immigration charge against this defendant. He faces up to 20 years in federal prison if convicted for 8 USC 1326,” Bill Essayli, the U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California wrote on X. “If the State of California will not seek the full measure of justice against this individual, the [Department of Justice] will.”
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My office has filed a felony immigration charge against this defendant. He faces up to 20 years in federal prison if convicted for 8 USC 1326.
If the State of California will not seek the full measure of justice against this individual, the <a href="https://twitter.com/TheJusticeDept?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@TheJusticeDept</a> will. <a href="https://t.co/wTuQdun1as">https://t.co/wTuQdun1as</a>
— US Attorney Essayli (@USAttyEssayli) <a href="https://twitter.com/USAttyEssayli/status/1915069030349648125?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 23, 2025</a></blockquote>
“This is absolutely unconscionable. What about Justice for these teens? What about the rights of their parents?” Attorney General Pam Bondi <a href="https://x.com/AGPamBondi/status/1915040349937954960">said on X,</a> adding that the DOJ “will work with ICE to make sure this illegal alien receives full punishment for his crimes.”

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California Nearly Freed A Twice-Deported Illegal Alien Drunk Driver — Now Newsom Is Backtracking

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President Donald Trump ordered federal and state flags to fly at half-staff in memory of Pope Francis, who died Monday at the age of 88.
The executive order followed earlier condolences from both Trump and Vice President JD Vance, who briefly met with Francis on Easter Sunday at the Vatican.
&#8220;As a mark of respect for the memory of His Holiness Pope Francis, by the authority vested in me as President of the United States by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, I hereby order that the flag of the United States shall be flown at half-staff at the White House and upon all public buildings and grounds, at all military posts and naval stations, and on all naval vessels of the Federal Government in the District of Columbia and throughout the United States and its Territories and possessions until sunset, on the day of interment,&#8221; Trump <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114376655236734018">wrote</a>. &#8220;I also direct that the flag shall be flown at half-staff for the same length of time at all United States embassies, legations, consular offices, and other facilities abroad, including all military facilities and naval vessels and stations.&#8221;
Shortly after he signed the order, Trump appeared at the White House Easter Egg Roll, where he addressed the death of Francis.
&#8220;I just signed an executive order putting the flags of our country — all of them, all federal flags and state flags — at half-mast in honor of Pope Francis. He was a good man, worked hard. He loved the world.&#8221;
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/POTUS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@POTUS</a>: &quot;I just signed an executive order putting the flags of our country &#8212; all of them &#8212; at half-mast in honor of Pope Francis. He was a good man, worked hard. He loved the world.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/v8YWFDJMOZ">pic.twitter.com/v8YWFDJMOZ</a>
&mdash; Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) <a href="https://twitter.com/RapidResponse47/status/1914335869252559151?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 21, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Trump and Vance have <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jd-vance-pays-brief-visit-to-pope-francis-on-easter?author=Tim+Pearce&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=JD+Vance+Pays+Brief+Visit+To+Pope+Francis+On+Easter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">cultivated</a> a close relationship with Catholics, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/eradicating-anti-christian-bias-trump-signs-executive-action-ending-targeting-of-christians" target="_blank" rel="noopener">promising</a> to crack down on &#8220;anti-Christian bias,&#8221; pointing to the increase in arson and vandalism surrounding Catholic churches as Roe v. Wade was overturned. During a February speech at the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast, Vance said that Trump, who is not Catholic, “has been an incredibly good president for Catholics in the United States of America.”
<a href="https://youtu.be/uwdJ2UEtFtk?si=9nyTfXeCB0U0Cvpu">WATCH: MICHAEL KNOWLES EXPLAINS HOW THE NEXT POPE WILL BE SELECTED</a>
In recent months, Francis has attacked the Trump administration&#8217;s planned deportation of millions of illegal immigrants.
“I have followed closely the major crisis that is taking place in the United States with the initiation of a program of mass deportations. The rightly formed conscience cannot fail to make a critical judgment and express its disagreement with any measure that tacitly or explicitly identifies the illegal status of some migrants with criminality,” Francis <a href="https://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/letters/2025/documents/20250210-lettera-vescovi-usa.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a> in a February letter to Catholic Bishops in the United States.
Those comments received <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tom-homan-slams-the-pope-for-hypocrisy-about-border-security?author=Daily+Wire+News&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Tom+Homan+Slams+The+Pope+For+Hypocrisy+About+Border+Security" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pushback</a> from Catholics inside the Trump administration, including border czar Tom Homan, who said that Francis should focus on the church instead of commenting on border policy.

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On Sunday, Trump border czar Tom Homan condemned Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) for making a taxpayer funded trip to El Salvador to meet with Kilmar Abrego Garcia, an illegal immigrant who was deported from the United States last month.
Homan redirected a question from ABC&#8217;s &#8220;This Week&#8221; by anchor Jonathan Karl when pressed about Abrego Garcia, who has been imprisoned in El Salvador, his home country. Abrego Garcia&#8217;s legal team has been <a href="https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69777799/1/abrego-garcia-v-noem/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">fighting</a> the federal government in a high-profile court to secure his return to the United States. Van Hollen, who claims Abrego Garcia is a Maryland “constituent” who endured an &#8220;abduction and unlawful deportation,&#8221; met the man on Thursday.
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/RealTomHoman?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RealTomHoman</a> : &quot;A U.S. senator traveled to El Salvador on taxpayers&#39; dime to meet with a MS-13 gang member &#8230; How many Angel Moms and Dads has he met in the state of Maryland?&quot; <a href="https://t.co/dkpuxWGIMn">pic.twitter.com/dkpuxWGIMn</a>
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&#8220;Sen. Van Hollen is — obviously got a chance to meet with [Abrego Garcia], but he had to travel to El Salvador to get any information. Is (sic) that concern you at all? I mean, these are people sent by — I mean, in his case, sent by the United States, and not even a U.S. senator could get any information about his whereabouts, or the condition of his incarceration, without actually going down and making the trip to El Salvador himself?&#8221; Karl asked.
&#8220;Well, he obviously knew his whereabouts, because he went there to see him. But you know, what bothers me more than that is a U.S. senator traveled to El Salvador on taxpayer dime to meet with an MS-13 gang member, public safety threat, terrorist. I mean, in the meantime, the day before he traveled, an illegal alien was arrested for murder, was released to the streets rather than honoring an ICE detainer in his very own state,&#8221; Homan retorted.
The Trump administration <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/facilitate-not-effectuate-wh-responds-to-scotus-ruling-on-mistakenly-deported-salvadoran" target="_blank" rel="noopener">accuses</a> Abrego Garcia of being a member of MS-13, which has been <a href="https://www.state.gov/designation-of-international-cartels/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">designated</a> as a foreign terror organization, and has released <a href="https://www.justice.gov/ag/media/1396906/dl?inline" target="_blank" rel="noopener">documents</a> and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dem-senator-van-hollen-did-not-ask-deported-illegal-immigrant-ms-13" target="_blank" rel="noopener">photo</a> evidence to substantiate the affiliation. Abrego Garcia&#8217;s attorneys <a href="https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69777799/1/abrego-garcia-v-noem/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">deny</a> the claim.
On CNN, Van Hollen <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dem-senator-van-hollen-did-not-ask-deported-illegal-immigrant-ms-13" target="_blank" rel="noopener">dared</a> the Trump administration to bring up the gang affiliation claim in Abrego Garcia’s ongoing deportation case. The senator also <a href="https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/1913954303418474622" target="_blank" rel="noopener">conceded</a> during an interview on &#8220;Fox News Sunday&#8221; that his trip to El Salvador was funded by taxpayer dollars.
Homan went on to criticize Van Hollen over the border crisis during President Joe Biden&#8217;s administration.
&#8220;What concerns me is Van Hollen never went to the border the last four years under Joe Biden, when he had a 600% increase in sex trafficking in women and children,&#8221; Homan said. &#8220;You have a record number of known inspected terrorists crossing that border. You had a quarter of a million Americans die from fentanyl overdose because of the open border. You had over 4,000 illegal aliens died making that journey, which is an historic record. What shocks me is he&#8217;s remained silent on the travesty that happened on the southern border. Many people died, thousands of people died. I met with hundreds of Angel moms and dads who buried their children that were murdered by illegal aliens. How many Angel moms and dads has he met in the state of Maryland? That&#8217;s what concerns me.&#8221;
Last week, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/white-house-calls-surprise-briefing-with-patty-morin-whose-daughter-was-killed-by-illegal-alien?author=Virginia+Kruta&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=1&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=White+House+Calls+Surprise+Briefing+With+Patty+Morin%2C+Whose+Daughter+Was+Killed+By+Illegal+Alien" target="_blank" rel="noopener">criticized</a> Van Hollen and other Democrats who have rallied in support of Abrego Garcia during a press briefing alongside <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/inside-the-briefing-room-an-angel-mom-begs-white-house-media-to-tell-the-truth-about-illegal-crime" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Patty Morin</a>, whose daughter, Rachel, 37, was raped and murdered in Maryland two years ago by another illegal immigrant from El Salvador.
“It’s appalling and sad that Senator Van Hollen and the Democrats applauding his trip to El Salvador today are incapable of having any shred of common sense or empathy for their own constituents and our citizens,” Leavitt said.

US Border Czar Tom Homan

Trump Border Czar Tears Into Dem Senator Van Hollen For El Salvador Trip

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Trump border czar <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/tom-homan" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tom Homan</a> said this week that he will fully support the local police officers who are being targeted for helping U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement ICE personnel in a New York sanctuary city.
Officers from the Rochester Police Department (RPD) are being targeted by Rochester&#8217;s Democrat Mayor Malik Evans and Police Chief David Smith for responding to a call for backup from ICE agents on Monday, and allegedly handcuffing individuals when on the scene. The department has even opened an internal investigation into the matter.
&#8220;The officers on the scene verbally directed the occupants to get out of the vehicle, and this is against our policy,&#8221; Mayor Evans said at a press conference this week, 13 WHAM News <a href="https://13wham.com/news/local/rochester-police-officers-accused-of-violating-policy-while-assisting-border-patrol-agents" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
&#8220;Our policy is crystal clear. City police officers do not help or participate in federal immigration activities,&#8221; Evans said, referring to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/lawmakers-grill-sanctuary-city-mayors-on-illegal-immigration-live-updates" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sanctuary city policy</a>. &#8220;Every RPD officer — I&#8217;ve instructed the chief — every officer receives more training on general orders to make sure all members are fully aware and fully understand this policy.&#8221;
&#8220;From watching the body-worn camera footage, what is concerning to me is despite the fact that we were called, we went lights and sirens,&#8221; Chief Smith said. &#8220;I see in the video a total lack of urgency on the part of multiple Border Patrol officers at the scene.&#8221;
&#8220;We are not to be handcuffing subjects,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We are not to be doing pat frisks on subjects, and we are absolutely not going to be detaining them or putting them into our cars.&#8221;
Homan has repeatedly offered his support for these officers who helped ICE, saying that he&#8217;s planning to come to Rochester and that &#8220;help is coming.&#8221;
&#8220;I stand with the officers of the Rochester, New York Police Department that answered the emergency assistance call from the U.S Border Patrol,&#8221; the border czar said in a statement on X. &#8220;The men and women of the Border Patrol have never refused the request for assistance from any law enforcement agency when they are available. That is the way it should be. Law enforcement officers should not be abandoned in the time of need because of politics.&#8221;
&#8220;Sanctuary policies endanger our police and the public,&#8221; he added. &#8220;President Trump and AG Pam Bondi are committed to taking them on and so am I. Help is coming!&#8221;
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I stand with the officers of the Rochester, New York Police Department that answered the emergency assistance call from the U.S Border Patrol. The men and women of the Border Patrol have never refused the request for assistance from any law enforcement agency when they are…
— Thomas D. Homan (@RealTomHoman) <a href="https://twitter.com/RealTomHoman/status/1905703802738725245?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 28, 2025</a></blockquote>
According to the Rochester Police Locust Club, Homan said during a conference in Nashville, Tennessee, that he&#8217;s &#8220;coming to Rochester.&#8221;
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Moments ago, at the Major Cities Conference in Nashville, <a href="https://twitter.com/RealTomHoman?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RealTomHoman</a> said the following:
&#8220;I am coming to Rochester.&#8221;
Get ready.
— Rochester Police Locust Club (@ROCLocustClub) <a href="https://twitter.com/ROCLocustClub/status/1905698261182370002?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 28, 2025</a></blockquote>
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ny-counties-defying-dem-governor-after-she-fired-corrections-officers" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NY Counties Defying Dem Governor After She Fired Corrections Officers</a>

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After saying he would go to Boston, “bringing hell with me” after the Boston police commissioner said he would not aid ICE in finding illegal immigrants, border czar Tom Homan was accused of lying about the city by its Democratic Mayor Michelle Wu. On Monday, Homan reported that he had made good on his promise and led a team that reportedly found 370 illegal aliens in Boston and surrounding areas, with a majority being significant criminals.
On February 16, Democrat-appointed Boston Police Commissioner Michael Cox <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/boston-police-commissioner-doubles-down-ice-resistance-we-dont-enforce-detainers" target="_blank" rel="noopener">echoed</a> Wu, who had promised resistance to the deportations enforced by the Trump administration. Cox said Boston police officers “don’t have authority to enforce federal immigration law.” When asked if his perspective countered federal immigration law, Cox said the Boston Police Department has pretty defined rules and abides by state law.
Speaking at CPAC on February 22, Homan said he would go to Boston while quoting Kurt Russell as Wyatt Earp in the classic Western film “Tombstone”:
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I read a story last night, the police commissioner of Boston, You said you’d double down on not helping the law enforcement officers of ICE. I’m coming to Boston. I’m bringing hell with me. I looked at the numbers this morning; I stopped counting at nine. Nine child rapists that were in jail in Massachusetts, but rather than honoring an ICE detainer, released them back into the street. You’re not a police commissioner; take that badge off your chest, put it in the desk drawer. You became a politician. You forgot what it’s like to be a cop. And guess what? The men and women of Immigration and Custom Enforcement, they found those predators, and they’re locked back up, and we’re going to deport them from the United States.
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Roughly two weeks later, Wu <a href="https://www.facebook.com/reel/573946825689920" target="_blank" rel="noopener">testified</a> before Congress, stating, “Let’s talk about Tom Homan. Shame on him for lying about my city, for having the nerve to insult our police commissioner, who has overseen the safest Boston has been in anyone’s lifetime.”
On Monday, Homan, a former police officer, fired back. He stated on X:
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I made a promise at CPAC that I was going to Boston after reading about numerous illegal alien child rapists walking the streets of Boston and Massachusetts. ICE had to find and arrest these illegal alien rapists because Massachusetts and Boston are sanctuaries that refuse to cooperate with ICE. They would rather release these animals back into the community rather than honor ICE detainers or notify ICE when they are scheduled to be released.  Mayor Chu later testified that I was lying. Well, I traveled to Boston last Tuesday, as promised, and we kicked off a five day operation with ICE, FBI, ATF, DEA, US Marshals and DSS. These incredible men and women arrested a total of 370 Illegal aliens in Boston and surrounding areas.  A majority of the 370 being significant criminals. 
These arrests included 6 foreign fugitives, including four who were wanted for murder or to serve a criminal sentence for murder, along with drug traffickers, child sexual predators and numerous other violent public safety threats.  These officers and agents made the neighborhoods of Boston and Massachusetts much safer.  They risked their own safety by arresting these criminals on the street, rather than a jail. Governor Healy and Mayor Wu should be ashamed of supporting sanctuary policies.  Releasing public safety threats back into the public, rather than working with ICE at the jails, puts the public at great risk. President Trump’s &#8220;all of government effort&#8221; to arrest and remove the WORST FiRST is making our communities safer every day.  President Trump is a Game Changer who is keeping his promises to the American people. Much more to do, but it will be done!
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I made a promise at CPAC that I was going to Boston after reading about numerous illegal alien child rapists walking the streets of Boston and Massachusetts. ICE had to find and arrest these illegal alien rapists because Massachusetts and Boston are sanctuaries that refuse to…
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Homan Does Indeed ‘Bring Hell’ To Boston: ‘Much More To Do, But It Will Be Done!’

Michelle Wu

ABC News host Jonathan Karl, a frequent critic of President Donald Trump, admitted during an interview on Sunday that the president has scored a significant victory in securing America&#8217;s borders after four disastrous years under President Joe Biden.
Karl made the acknowledgement while interviewing Border Czar Tom Homan on &#8220;This Week&#8221; about the state of the southern border.
&#8220;You have now more than 10,000 U.S. troops deployed to support your mission at the border and two Navy destroyers that have been deployed to patrol the waters around the border as well,&#8221; he said. &#8220;How long do you expect you are going to need that level of force, military force, at the border, because, as you just mentioned, the numbers are way down?&#8221;
&#8220;I mean they are dramatically down,&#8221; he admitted.
Homan responded by highlighting some of the metrics showing just how drastically the numbers have dropped.
&#8220;Illegal entry is down 96 percent,&#8221; Homan said. &#8220;What&#8217;s most impressive is known got-a-ways. Known got-aways under Joe Biden were on average 1,800 people a day crossed the border, weren&#8217;t apprehended, weren’t processed, weren&#8217;t vetted. We don&#8217;t know who they are or where they came from. That&#8217;s a huge national security issue. Known got-a-ways are down to, you know, double digits now.&#8221;
&#8220;But we&#8217;re not going to be satisfied until that know got-a-way is down to zero,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;We’re going to secure the border and make sure no public safety threats or national security threats cross the border and get away.&#8221;
He said that the administration was pouring more resources into maritime patrol to secure coastal areas.
&#8220;We’re going to secure the border, both the land border and the maritime border to make sure these public safety threats and national security threats won&#8217;t get into the country,&#8221; he said, adding that the administration will have &#8220;total operational control of the border.&#8221;
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As the Trump administration increases number of troops deployed to the border, border czar Tom Homan says: “We’ll use these assets as long as we can until we can get to the point where we have total operational control over the border.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/PXbSR0Y8bi">https://t.co/PXbSR0Y8bi</a> <a href="https://t.co/kmHDSBSHz2">pic.twitter.com/kmHDSBSHz2</a>
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ABC News’ Jonathan Karl Admits Illegal Immigration ‘Dramatically Down’ Under Trump

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Media

Border Czar Tom Homan said over the weekend that federal investigators relied on a variety of techniques to identify the illegal aliens who were arrested and deported in recent days for being members of Tren de Aragua — a Venezuelan Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO).
Homan made the remarks during a Sunday interview on ABC News&#8217; &#8220;This Week&#8221; with Jonathan Karl when asked about the deportation flights removing the terrorists from the country.
&#8220;As far as the Venezuelans on that flight, every single one, according to the information given to me from the field, are members of the TDA,&#8221; Homan said, referring to the group by its acronym. &#8220;And TDA has been determined to be a terrorist organization. They are now classified as terrorists. So that plane removed 240 terrorists from the United States.&#8221;
When asked how law enforcement identified those individuals as part of the terrorist organization, Homan said that there were numerous techniques and methods involved.
&#8220;A lot of gang members don&#8217;t have criminal histories. Just like a lot of terrorists in this world, they’re not in any terrorist database, right?&#8221; he said. &#8220;We only know information, what’s in databases based on – for instance, most terrorists we arrest that are identified by the U.S. government are later identified through a Title III investigation or through an undercover operation. They&#8217;re not in any terror screening database.&#8221;
&#8220;A lot of gang members &#8212; I started as cop in 1984 &#8212; many gang members don&#8217;t have a criminal history,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;So, we have to count on social media. We have to count on surveillance techniques. We had to count on sworn statements from other gang members. We had to count on, you know, wiretaps and Title III, to everything involved with criminal investigations.&#8221;
He emphasized that just because someone has not been arrested or charged with a crime before doesn&#8217;t mean that they are not part of a gang or terrorist group.
&#8220;A lot of officers, a lot of criminal investigators, special agents who&#8217;ve done this for decades looked at the intelligence information, the criminal investigation information, all their various social media and surveillance and government records and public records, and they are confident that they&#8217;re all members of the TDA,&#8221; he said.
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When pressed by <a href="https://twitter.com/jonkarl?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JonKarl</a> about due process for deported migrants allegedly tied to gangs, Trump border czar Tom Homan says officials are “confident they’re all members of the TDA.”
&quot;We&#39;re actually using the laws on the books to enforce immigration laws.” <a href="https://t.co/oO9fEVxwH1">https://t.co/oO9fEVxwH1</a> <a href="https://t.co/0ESncDBUhC">pic.twitter.com/0ESncDBUhC</a>
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Tom Homan at roundtable

Homan Explains How Officials Identified TDA Gang Members Who Got Deported

Tren De Aragua

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Border Czar Tom Homan said during a panel discussion this week that while the Trump administration has secured a historic turnaround on the southern border he still wants more.
Homan made the remarks during a discussion with Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and former Acting DHS Secretary Chad Wolf at the New College of Florida.
&#8220;In four weeks, we have arrested more criminal aliens in the interior United States than Joe Biden did in a year, first of all,&#8221; Homan said. &#8220;Second of all, border numbers right now are down 96% — 96% decline in six weeks. We did in six weeks with Joe Biden refused to do in four years.&#8221;
&#8220;And what we needed as the President articulated during the speech, all we needed was a new president who took border security seriously, and that&#8217;s what we have in President Trump,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;But here&#8217;s the most important part, what I think is the most important part — gotaways.&#8221;
Homan noted that under former President Joe Biden, more than 2 million illegal aliens slipped into the U.S. without being apprehended, fingerprinted, or vetted.
&#8220;2.2 million people came in this country and we got them on video, drone traffic, sensor traffic, they weren&#8217;t apprehended because Border Patrol is too busy changing diapers, making baby formula, taking care of the humanitarian crisis of people coming across that border by the millions,&#8221; he said. &#8220;2.2 million people across the border, we don&#8217;t know who they are, where they came from, or why they&#8217;re here.&#8221;
He said that the number of gotaways entering the U.S. has plummeted from an average of 1,800 per day under Biden to only 41 under Trump.
&#8220;Here&#8217;s what I keep preaching, but the Left keeps pushing back, when you have a 96% decline in illegal border crossing, when 96% less people are coming, how many women and children aren&#8217;t being sexually assaulted by the cartels?&#8221; he asked. &#8220;How many children aren&#8217;t dying crossing that border? How many pounds of fentanyl is not getting into this country to kill Americans? How many people on the terrorist watch list aren&#8217;t escaping into this country? How many billions of dollars are the cartels not making?&#8221;
&#8220;A secure border saves lives, and that&#8217;s what President Trump has done,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We were saving lives by the thousands simply by have a secure border.&#8221;
Homan added that there was still more work to be done and that he was not satisfied with the work that has happened so far.
&#8220;We need to do 10 times more,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I&#8217;m not satisfied. We&#8217;re not going to rest. I&#8217;m not going to sleep well at night, until every public safety threat [and all] illegal aliens are eradicated from this country.&#8221;
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/RealTomHoman?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RealTomHoman</a>: &quot;In four weeks, we arrested more criminal aliens in the interior of the United States than Joe Biden did in a year&#8230; Border numbers right now are down 96%&#8230; We did in six weeks what Joe Biden refused to do in four years.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/rV7TlcnJWm">pic.twitter.com/rV7TlcnJWm</a>
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Homan Pushes To Increase Efforts Combatting Illegal Immigration Tenfold

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